Where does “irezumi” come from?
irezumi (English) comes from Japanese いれずみ, from Japanese すみ, from Japanese み, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.
irezumi (English): traditional Japanese tattooing
Definitions
- traditional Japanese tattooing
Ancestry of “irezumi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | いれずみ | 入れ墨, 入墨, 刺青, 文身, 黥 a tattoo |
| 2 | Japanese | すみ | — |
| 3 | Japanese | み | 身 body; 実 fruit; nut; content; 霊, 神 spirit; god |
| 4 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 5 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 6 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 7 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 8 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |