What is the Japanese family tattoo all about?

Family tattoos are a remnant of Japan's traditional culture. In the past, Japanese people put family crests on their clothes or buildings, and even on flags, representing a family identity or a family name.

Because in the past the common people of Japan did not have a name and could not recognize each other, after they were allowed to have their own family crests, the common people began to draw their own family crests to distinguish themselves from each other.

But in the early days, family crests were not allowed to be used by the common people, but only by the samurai families or the nobles. Because in the past when Japan fought wars, they liked to use flags to differentiate between two teams, such as the red flag and the white flag, but later on with the involvement of the samurai, because there were many different samurai families, they were involved in battles, and it was sometimes difficult to differentiate between them just by the color of the flag.

This led to the emergence of the family tattoo to its later prevalence. And the drawing pattern of the family pattern, in fact, there is not much constraints, generally there are animals and plants, artifacts, and some flowers and other things can be used to draw into the family pattern. Even in ancient Japan, there were painters who specialized in drawing family crests for other people.

In Europe there are also similar family pattern like things, but they are generally used in Europe, the aristocrats can only have, Japan's family pattern with the difference is that he has been common people, Japan's common people can also be used, until now there are still a lot of people like to use the family pattern in Japan.

Japanese family tattoos have gradually developed into a culture, as a traditional Japanese culture has been inherited, even now many young people like to tattoo the family tattoo on their own bodies, as an honor, as a kind of family heritage.