The Japanese as a culture has long been noted for its appreciation of beauty, but that does not necessarily extend to the art of tattoo. The show looks at Japanese tattooing and its ties to ukiuyo ...

Credit: Rake House Somehow, a singularly rare specimen of antique Japanese tattoo flash made its way ... on a sparsely documented era of the inky art form. Back in the early 1900s, America was ...

“Specializing in tebori is not commonplace,” says Kip Fulbeck, an art professor at UC Santa Barbara, who is organizing a 2014 exhibition of Japanese tattoos at the Japanese American National ...

"It seems like every two or three days we are doing a koi (carp) half-sleeve or a dragon tattoo. People in the States are going nuts for Japanese. It's really blown up over the last two years ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. According to legend, the tattoo was elevated to an art ...

Modern tattoo machines feature a depth setting ... a sociology professor at Purdue University Fort Wayne who has studied Japanese body art. “Laypeople – students, or office workers ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Morgan Garcia-Lamarca’s bare back elicits gasps and wide eyes from those who glimpse the 14-inch-long Japanese proverb inscribed down his spine. The four black, broad ...

A photo exhibit featuring traditional Japanese tattoo art, called "American Irezumi" is coming to San Francisco's Main Library in October, featuring the work of San Jose tattoo artist Takahiro ...

While tattoos are becoming more fashionable among younger Japanese, they remain stigmatized ... had a marking on her hand that resembled the art. Shimoji had grown up performing Okinawan dances ...

Holding a 14-inch bamboo stick with 27 needles on the end, he's practising tebori, a traditional Japanese form of tattooing. He describes this art as "a very secretive world". Tattoos take ...

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