[littlenugget]

Hi, all. I'll be visiting Japan next month and plan on getting a tattoo while there. I'd like to get lotus flower written on me. I'm currently learning Japanese. So far I'm familiar with hiragana and katakana, but I don't know any kanji. Is lotus flower/renge always written in kanji? Do people in Japan ever write things in hiragana instead of using the kanji symbols? I'm just wondering if it would be stupid of me to ask the tattoo artist to write in hiragana instead of kanji.


By the way, am I correct? Lotus flower = renge?