Kanji tattoos are not always what they seem.

The world of tatoos is not one I am involved in (though I do know a tatooist or two and have many friends and a son who have them) but it is fair to say that in the spiritual community many people do have and will have tatoos of a spiritual nature and that a high proportion of them will incorporate Kanji scripts and even Gaelic.  
For years I have said that people who have Kanji script tattooed on their bodies need to be careful as, unless you can read and write in Kanji how do you know that what you have permanently placed their isn't just a rude word, or something other than what it's meant to be, or worse something really offensive to those that can actually read it!
Well now it's official!, the article posted today in the DM online shows the results of being stupid enough to have this done without properly researching the word or phrase you want to have placed on yourself. 
Don't get me wrong, while I personally wouldn't ever have a tattoo, I respect another's right to choose to do so and I respect their right to chose to have one in a language different to their mother tongue, but for goodness sake have the good sense to research it properly! It is not hard to get proper translations of a language nowadays, just pop into your local language school or go to the library and read a few books on script or ask a trusted friend of that origin to check it for you (don't, for goodness sake be foolish enough to just blindly put a script or any foreign language from a greetings card or ornament on yourself) 
All it can take to change the whole meaning of some of these words is something as stupidly simple as changing the angle of a line, putting an e instead of an é, reversing the i and the e in some french words can completely change the meaning of the word and  even inadvertently reversing a script in tracing it can do the same (as we see in Farberov's article. If this happens you are stuck with it permanently so be careful, be very careful and check, double-check and treble-check so you can be certain that the statement you are making is actually the statement you intended to make. 
Two of the main things you could do is to always go to a reputable tattooist and to make sure you have the script, word etc, that you want clearly written down on a piece of paper and take a friend along to watch it going on as you are often unable to see the actual tattoo being done due to where on your body you want it placed. 

For the full article follow link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190806/Golden-Pig-Coffin-Man-Noodles-When-Asian-tattoos-dont-turn-quite-planned.html