Prosperity

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.

• 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

• Peony, the queen of flowers in Japanese culture (opens in a new tab)

  Tier 2

  Maggie Whales, Tattoo Life

  Tattoo magazine feature. Verbatim: "In Japanese culture, the beauty, elegance and resilience of the peony have earned it the title of queen of flowers." and "it stands for good fortune, beauty and courage". It makes two meanings COLOUR-DEPENDENT: "Traditionally, the white peony flower symbolised the virginal purity of maidens whereas the red peony was associated with female eroticism." It adds a tattoo-specific reading via the Suikoden prints, "one of the meanings associated with the peony in Japanese tattoo is also that of masculine power", and a Chinese origin, "The peony actually appeared first in Chinese art and represented the force of life." CULTURAL NOTE THE SOURCE ITSELF MAKES: "Shintoism, an animist religion, has greatly influenced Japanese culture" - Shinto is a LIVING religion, so the tradition is routed to T11.10 and only the drawn motif is registered here.

  industry source · published 2022-01-10 · retrieved 2026-08-29