"Look at life cold" in kanji

[nice gaijin]

I wish I could say this was the strangest kanji tattoo request I've seen here.

You are taking an ENGLISH poem (and you didn't even know who wrote it) and asking strangers on the internet to translate part of it, not even a complete line, for your tattoo into a language you don't understand. And now you're just asking more strangers to confirm this translation. And why? Because kanji tattoos are "in fashion?!#@!?" Your excerpt actually changes the original meaning and then changes, even more, when you translate it into a foreign language.

Sorry for being blunt, but are you aware of how STUPID this all sounds? Not that this stranger's opinion makes any difference, so enjoy your ridiculous tattoo.

 

[Amigo]

Esta bien la separacion que propones pero si puedes seria mejor que lo pongas en vertical, ya que en el japones tradicional, o sea, en plan bonito, se escribe en vertical y de derecha a izquierda.
Quedaria asi:

向 冷
け た
よ い
生 目
に を


Saludos, y no le hagas caso al payaso de arriba.

 

[undrentide]

So 冷たい目を向けよ 生に means "cast a cold eye on life" , NOW I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO CONFIRM IT, BECAUSE I WANT TO TATTOO ME THIS PHRASE OF THE TRADUCTION, i have decided it. And other question, if i tattoo me this phrase in the arm, can i put it first five letters, and below the other five letters?, that is to say : 冷たい目を , in this form tattoed in my arm.
向けよ 生に

As a part of poem, it is OK, but if you want to take only the part you want, you should change the word order.
生に冷たい目を向けよ
Otherwise people who understand Japanese would think you got it wrong (grammatically).

But mind you, even people who understand Japanese would have no clue what your tattoo is about. 生 in the original translation can be easily understood as "life" because it is used along with 死 (death), but on its own 生 also could men "raw" or "draft" (as beer)...

 

[Mike Cash]

Sir Ashikaga, i want to put me a tattoo in japanese because here in Europe to put tattoos in japanese alphabet is in fashion. Almost all the people who put a tattoo with phrases these days ,put it in japanese way, because it is in fashion now.

Fashions come and fashions go. Tattoos stay.

You really have no deeper reason for doing this than "everybody else is doing it"? I'd be ashamed to admit something like that.

 

[nice gaijin]

Saludos, y no le hagas caso al payaso de arriba.

Better a clown than a fool.

Nice of you to revert to a language you thought I wouldn't understand. If I had responded in kind, I could just use the language you intend to print on your skin.

 

[Mike Cash]

As a part of poem, it is OK, but if you want to take only the part you want, you should change the word order.
生に冷たい目を向けよ
Otherwise people who understand Japanese would think you got it wrong (grammatically).

But mind you, even people who understand Japanese would have no clue what your tattoo is about. 生 in the original translation can be easily understood as "life" because it is used along with 死 (death), but on its own 生 also could men "raw" or "draft" (as beer)...

Then we could change the word order again and get:

冷たい生に目を向けよ

Now that would be a tattoo worth having!

 

[bammbamm&pebbles]

Hello, How can i say " look at life coldly " in Japanese kanji ? it is for a tattoo.

「看破世塵」,it's the closest Kanji translation phrase.

 

[Amigo]

Nice of you to revert to a language you thought I wouldn't understand. If I had responded in kind, I could just use the language you intend to print on your skin.

I didn' think you wouldn't understand. Don't make up things, please.
Actually I thought you could use authomatic translators, dictionaries, latin friends, etc...

I don't care at all if you understood or not what I said.
I just wrote in Spanish to communicate easier with him.
By the way, being a "Kamisama" doesn't give you the right to address people that way. Don't you think so?

 

[AJBryant]

Then we could change the word order again and get:
冷たい生に目を向けよ
Now that would be a tattoo worth having!

If you make that 冷たい生ビールに目を向けよ then I would be SO with you.


Tony

 

[Neq]

Thanks all, but finally i have decided don´t tattoo me that phrase , because like undrentide said, isn´t perfect .Thanks at all the people in this forum for the help. Bye.

 

[nice gaijin]

Have... Have we just made a difference in someone's life? Tian over at hanzismatter must hate us for robbing him of potential content.

 

[Chidoriashi]

Thanks all, but finally i have decided don´t tattoo me that phrase , because like undrentide said, isn´t perfect .Thanks at all the people in this forum for the help. Bye.

A wise decision. Stick to the T-shirts.

 

[Mike Cash]

If you make that 冷たい生ビールに目を向けよ then I would be SO with you.
Tony

I thought that was easily understood from the context.

Nippon Television a few years ago had a new slogan バージンからはじめよう

I used to annoy my wife by repeating it without the じ

 

[AJBryant]

I thought that was easily understood from the context.

Nippon Television a few years ago had a new slogan バージンからはじめよう

I used to annoy my wife by repeating it without the じ

You're a horrible, horrible man.

And don't you EVER change.


Tony

 

[Glenn]

I don't get it, and I'm not sure what it is that's keeping me from getting it.

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

Glenn, your heart is pure.

lol

 

[becki_kanou]

Ack! I don't get it either. Am I just incredibly thick?

「じ」抜きで言ったら。。。『バーンから始めよう」????!!!!??

edit: nevermind I just realized I was 抜くing the wrong じ
Mike you're a dirty old man, but a funny one.

 

[Glenn]

Ah, that じ. Well, that explains why it was in hiragana. I got it now, and it's pretty much where I thought it was -- I just have a more accurate picture now.

 

[Emoni]

If you make that 冷たい生ビールに目を向けよ then I would be SO with you.
Tony

Agreed.

Here my recommendation.

今日寒いわ

There you go, all done. I'd say it translates in one form or another to "Life is Cold." Have fun with the tattoo.