One of the most popular tattoos today. Do you want a proof? The Kanji tattoos can be accounted for nearly 20% of all Internet tattoo design searches. The Kanji tattoos can be considered as exotic thus making them very attractive and popular. Also, the Kanjis are very complex that having them as a tattoo can also be a pitfall. Why? First of all, Kanji is not even a traditional tattoo in Japan. it was just the westerners who started doing the Kanji tattoo that they believed that it identifies them with an Eastern philosophy based on geishas and cherry blossoms.