Today, we are showing you the Japanese family crest with Japanese kanji name symbols.
Japanese family crest are normally used for representing a family, yet, it doesn't mean that the same family has the same family crest design.

In Japan, if you go to a country side, you will see a traditional Japanese houes which also put their Japanese family crest on the gate.

Historically, it was used by Samurai to represent their group.
Here is an example and what it looks like



This is a family crest with name, oda, written in kanji symbols.

Looks good, right?

Today's FREE Japanese symbol is respect.
It is written in kanji script.
As you might know, there are 3 different Japanese scripts called:

1. Kanji
2. Katakana
3. Hiragana

Normally, when we write "respect" in Japanese, we use kanji symbols.
Here it is



In Japanese, we call it "Son kei".
However, as you might know, there are different ways to write the same word in Japanese, and it really depends on context.
So you need to be carefull when using the Japanese kanji symbols, especially for tattoo design.