I came very close to getting a Ronin kanji tattoo. I went to my cousin's wife, from Japan, to make sure I had the correct kanji. She was unsure of the word I was saying, so she looked it up in her Jap-Eng dictionary. While we in the west may glorify the rogue warrior, Japanese culture does not. The modern equivalent of this word in Japanese, that is to find a word to convey the equal meaning "Ronin" has in Japan to an American English word, is "high school drop-out". So, while we may find this concept edifying, a Japanese person may laugh uncontrollably at you for wearing this.
