When the Japanese government ... city directories attest. Judging by the drawings in those daybooks, he was no tattoo virtuoso, nor is it clear he stuck with the hobby for very long.

“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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Full sleeves, fine lines and cover-ups in traditional American, Japanese ... s reaction to the new piece of art on their skin. Seeing them excited about their tattoo is the highlight of Sandvick ...