Here you will find thousands of names in Japanese hand-lettered by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase. These names have been meticulous researched and documented and, for most names, we provide independent references. These beautiful Names in Japanese may be immediately downloaded when your order is placed.
Professionally designed Japanese tattoos with the click of the mouse!
We offer each design as Personal Use/Body Art that includes the stencil outline your tattoo artist needs to ink the Japanese tattoo. Commercial use formats are also available and can be immediately purchased and downloaded. The commercial use designs are suitable for newsletters, ads, wedding anouncements, crafts, marketing materials, menus, book illustrations, cd covers and more.
As an example, below we show the name Amy in katakana and hiragana. For Amy we have both horizontal and vertical designs in katakana and a vertical design in hiragana. And, as you can see, each design comes with three variations of the name so you always have a choice.
When you order you will be able to immediately download a professional quality high-resolution design. To show you the exceptional quality of our tattoo designs, here is a free download for Amy in Hiragana. (If you have trouble opening the file, you can download the Adobe PDF reader for free from Adobe.com) Notice that each design comes with three variations of the name so you have a choice of which to have inked! What is more, you can easily resize the design and the image prints out beautifully.
For translating names to Japanese we use katakana. Katakana preserves the pronunciation and is the option most likely to be recognized as a name. Katakana is the standard way names are translated to Japanese and is how non-Japanese names appear in Japanese dictionaries, newspapers, and encyclopedias.
We also show names translated to Japanese using hiragana which is similar to katakana though it can be more flowing and feminine. The samples for Amy above show two examples in katakana and one example in hiragana and you can see the difference for yourself. For more information on how names can be translated to Japanese, read Eri Takase's article How to Write Names in Japanese which first appeared in her monthly column in Martial Arts Insiders Magazine.
For personal use, these designs are perfect for tattoos and, of course, for scrapbooking and crafts. The personal use designs are delivered in an Adobe PDF file format which means they will print just as Master Takase has designed them and you can also easily change the size of the design to fit your needs. What is more these names in Japanese come with the line art that, for a tattoo, is what your tattoo artist must have to properly ink the design.
For commercial use, these designs are perfect for wedding invitations, advertising, books, magazinese, marketing, and newsletters. The commercial use designs are delivered in either 72 dpi JPG or 300 dpi JPG format - perfect for web and print applications.
Commercial uses for these Japanese designs are endless!
All of the names in Japanese Calligraphy are hand-lettered by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase in the same font so that they can be used together. Combine names with other Japanese Calligraphy words to create a Japanese tattoo that is unique and personal.