Its dynamic movement and vivid shades create a captivating piece of art. The Fierce Tiger Mark your courage and power with a ...

“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 ...

Calves bulging and back rippling with sinewy muscles, Du Xing – a bandit in the Chinese martial arts novel “Water Margin” – moves towards a precipice. His arms are raised overhead ...

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. “Elaborate Japanese tattoos can resemble colorful garments,” Thompson writes in the new book, “covering the body from the ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A traveling exhibition that recently left Richmond’s Virginia Museum of Fine Arts features life-sized photographs of traditional Japanese tattoo art captured by the photographer Kip Fulbeck.

and drawn from The Museum of Fine Arts’ renowned Japanese art collection, the exhibit explains the path this body art took, from the streets of early 19th century Japan into 21st century tattoo ...

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 ...

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 ...