霊感 meaning and if it is the best choice to express inspiration So I'm looking to express the great inspiration some people feel that guides admirable creations. This kind of thing. I found but I have very little experience with kanjis and I don't want to choose something that will look weird for someone who actually understands it. By the way this word will be used with no context. To explain it entirely I'll be gifting someone with a painting with these kanjis in it.

without no context primarily refers to a supernatural ability to feel or see ghosts, spirits or such. If a native speaker saw a painting that just says , they would first wonder if it's related to occultism or exorcism. You need enough context to use as a word meaning _inspiration_ (and such a usage is not very common, anyway).

The common words for _inspiration_ , when it refers to a sudden great idea you get from nowhere or from someone, include:

* (transliteration of _inspiration_ )
* (lit. "flash")
* (lit. "conception", "motive")
* (lit. "stimuli")



It's hard to choose the best one. is the commonest and safest in ordinary Japanese sentences, but you may not like it since it's a katakana loanword. and are kanji words, but IMO they are not very "fancy" words. sounds fancy enough (to me) but it's not a pure kanji word because it's a form of the verb .