What does a hanya mask tattoo mean?

Answer 1

The story is that she was once a beautiful woman who fell in love with a priest. Her unrequited love causes her to turn into a monster who expresses the fury of a woman overwhelmed by jealousy and anger. jelious women, who grows horns the hanya is a face of a woman who has grown so jelous that she has become disfigured and has grown horns the mask is normally used to ward off evil and has become popular in recent tattooing culture a hanya mask symbolizes a woman who has grown horns and a misfigured face from the jealousy that she possesses.

Typically a hanya mask as used in kabuki theater represent a women who has been consumed by jealousy and transformed into a demon/oni, however as with any tattoo the meaning you place on it can be entirely personal, whether you choose to interpret this as your inner demons or anything else is down to you.

ANSWER some says that it symbolizes a woman who have been cursed. however, hanya mask was used by the samurai as a helm, by that of their believes, that hanya mask symbolizes that fallen angels are protecting them. Answer hanya does no mean them!!!!!!!! this is so annoying if your name is hanya