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Change

The meaning of things altering. Minted from a full sentence rather than a list item, and kept separate from symbol_transformation (sub-batch A, the snake shedding its skin): a snake's transformation is one thing becoming another, while what a wind bar carries here is simply that conditions do not hold. OPEN QUESTION for T11.11: whether these two should merge is a modelling question no fetched source answers.
Thin
Low confidencedraft

1 attested1 source · T2

Registry entry only

The corpus has no enrichment row for this concept (symbols), so it carries its label, description, aliases and provenance and nothing further. No visual traits or cautions are recorded — not because they failed to load, but because that data does not exist in the corpus.

Provenance

1 resolved

  • Japanese Tattoos and Their Meanings (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattooing 101

    Professional tattoo education page. Cited here for ONE architectural attestation only: "You’ll often see samurai warriors paired with temples as a way to tell a story about a brave and noble warrior who is ready to defend his honor and his people." The page's Japanese religious and mythological material is NOT drawn on here; it belongs to T11.10.

    professional tattoo source · retrieved 2026-08-30

Related concepts

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Can symbolize · 1

  • ← incomingWind BarMotifAttested
    strength 0.50needs cultural review

    Tier 2, scoped to Japanese tattooing: “Wind bars, or kaze, are vertical lines (or sometimes swirls) of shading in Japanese tattooing, they are often used to symbolize change and the impermanence of all things.” The word “often” is the source's and is why strength is 0.5. Confidence is low because ONE Tier 2 trade-education page is the whole evidence for a claim about a living tradition's visual language; no Tier 1 source in this corpus mentions wind bars at all.