Very Old Tattoo needs translating?!

[renneb]

I got this tattoo 13 years ago when I was 17 years old. Its pretty blurry, and I am all but positive by now that it means nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Its kind of embarrassing to admit, but when i got this tattoo i was told that it meant, "Fear not death, but life". Help Please!!

[jbradfor]

Ah, to be 17 and stupid again... I miss those days...

It does vaguely look like it might be Chinese, but I can't make it out. Help?

[Glenn]

Looks to me like the middle three are 田の女, and I can't make out the two on the ends enough to even guess at. No guarantees that I'm right about the middle three, either (well, 女 seems fairly obvious, anyway).

[Erbse]

well, 女 seems fairly obvious, anyway

Maybe 文 ?

[aristotle1990]

Looks like 火田?文? -- means something like "fire, field, ?, language, ?". The thing in the middle might be some sort of symbol, not a character, and the one on the end? Maybe 吾?

[roddy]

Any chance of a shave and a better photo? Can't see that it's going to come out meaning what it's meant to though.

[ma3zi1]

At really close up, I see:

犬田己文喜

(where 己 is upside-down and inverted)

But that still means nothing to me...

[Glenn]

Alright, so maybe 女 wasn't so obvious. After looking at it again, it does look like 文. I still don't get it. I think roddy's suggestion of a shave and better photo is the way to go here.