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Fertility

The meaning of abundance and reproduction. Attested for the rat in a Japanese context. NOTE: a single trade-magazine bullet is the whole of the evidence, so the edge that uses it is low confidence.
Thin
Medium confidenceresearched

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 tattoo: a brief history and symbol meanings (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    iNKPPL Tattoo Magazine

    Tattoo magazine style guide whose symbol list is the densest single-page motif-meaning evidence found for this batch. Verbatim: "Dragons, as symbols of wisdom and self-assurance, carp symbolizing courage, tigers as symbols of fearlessness, snakes as symbols of protection from misfortune and illness, peonies as symbols of wealth and prosperity, cherry blossoms as symbols of a warrior's short life and fleeting youth". Its bullet list adds "Koi carp swimming upstream - represents resilience and invincibility", "Tiger - symbolizes fearlessness", "Peony - represents life success", "Sakura (cherry blossom) - symbolizes sacrifice and obedience" and "Rat - represents fertility". IMPORTANT LIMIT: every claim here is JAPANESE-CONTEXT and describes a living tradition; each edge drawn from it is scoped to that context and flagged, and the tradition itself is T11.10's, not a motif node's.

    industry source · retrieved 2026-08-29

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  • ← incomingRatMotifThin
    strength 0.25needs cultural review

    JAPANESE CONTEXT ONLY, and weak: the entire evidence is the list item "Rat - represents fertility". Strength 0.25 records that this is a single unelaborated bullet, not a researched claim.