Skip to content

Symbol · symbol_purity

Purity

The meaning of chastity or unspoiled innocence. Attested as COLOUR-DEPENDENT: the source assigns it to the WHITE peony only.
Thin
Medium confidenceresearched

2 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

  • 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

Related concepts

2 links

Can symbolize · 2

  • ← incomingPeonyMotifAttested
    strength 0.50researched

    COLOUR-CONDITIONAL, WHITE ONLY: "Traditionally, the white peony flower symbolised the virginal purity of maidens whereas the red peony was associated with female eroticism."

  • ← incomingWaterMotifAttested
    strength 0.50needs cultural review

    Second meaning from the sentence cited on rel_t118c_0012. Reuses the symbol_purity node minted by sub-batch A, which reached it from a different motif and a different source - the point of a shared meaning node.