Gentou

String - Tools extend our abilities and enable us to create. May your child use the right tools wisely for good purposes.

Bowstring - Bowstring represents active engagement and purposeful effort. May your child engage in bowstring with purpose and skill.

Chord - Circles represent wholeness, cycles, and completeness. May your child experience life's full circle with grace.

Half Moon - The moon symbolizes elegance, tranquility, and the beauty of impermanence in Japanese aesthetics. May your child possess the moon's gentle beauty, illuminating the darkness with quiet grace.

Hypotenuse - Length represents endurance, reach, and sustained effort. May your child have the endurance to see things through to completion.

Peach - Small things often hold great importance; attention to detail matters. May your child appreciate small blessings and attend to fine details.

Abundance - Objects serve purposes and remind us of what matters. May your child value things for their true worth and purpose.

Fruitfulness - Seeds and eggs contain the promise of new life and future growth. May your child nurture their potential into full flourishing.

Black - Black represents formality, mystery, and the profound depths of the unknown. May your child have black's dignity, comfortable with mystery and the unknown.

Profound - Depth represents profundity, thorough understanding, and solid foundation. May your child develop depth of character and understanding.

Distant - Distance represents perspective, longing, and far-reaching vision. May your child see distant goals clearly and work toward them.

Deep, Mysterious - Depth represents profound understanding, emotional richness, and wisdom beyond the surface. May your child have depth of character, understanding life's profound truths.

Heaven - Heaven represents the celestial realm where ancestors watch over the living, and the source of all blessings. May your child live under heaven's protection, guided by ancestral wisdom and divine grace.

North - North represents guidance, direction, and unwavering steadfastness. May your child be a north star to others, providing guidance and direction.

Winter - Winter represents endurance, rest, and the strength to survive difficult times. May your child endure winter's trials with strength, knowing spring will surely come.

Cold - Cold represents clarity, objectivity, and the cool head needed for difficult decisions. May your child have a cool head when needed, clear and objective in judgment.

End of Year - Endings represent completion, closure, and the wisdom of finishing well. May your child finish well, bringing all they start to proper completion.