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kamikaze

People search for this as: kamikaze divine wind fearless all or nothing

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Do not ink this

The original meaning is beautiful. The one everybody has is not.

What a Japanese person actually thinks

The wartime meaning has completely eaten the folkloric one. In Japan, in Korea, in China, and across the West, this word means suicide pilots. Wearing it is a statement about the war whether you intend one or not.

Meaning

Literally
god + wind
Actually
The 'divine wind' — the typhoons that destroyed two Mongol invasion fleets in the 13th century. Then, from 1944, the name given to suicide-attack units.

Scores

Naturalness●●●●●

Correct word, catastrophic association.

Coolness

神 and 風 are both lovely characters. Together, in this order, they are not available for aesthetic use.

Watch out

  • highDeeply painful across East Asia. Expect a bad reaction from Korean and Chinese readers in particular, and discomfort from many Japanese ones.
  • highIn English, 'kamikaze' has drifted to mean 'recklessly bold'. That drift has not happened in Japanese.

Get this instead

  • kaze
    wind
    If the wind was the appeal, take the wind. Clean, open character with no history attached.
  • ten'yū
    divine protection; heaven's help
    If the 'divine intervention saved us' story was the appeal, this says that with no military baggage.

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