Cultural anthropologist Yamamoto Yoshimi provides a brief survey of irezumi from ... more elaborate tattoos accelerated during the nineteenth century, culminating in the full-body tattoo.

Instead, they took a full body cast of the actor, made a replica, and chopped it up into pieces. But first, the "body" had to be covered in Irezumi tattoos – a traditional Japanese body art.

This is Horiyoshi III, one of the world's most legendary full ... Japanese tattooing, or irezumi, can be traced back to around 10,000 BC, in the Jomon period. The Japanese government banned ...

A photo exhibit featuring traditional Japanese tattoo art, called "American Irezumi" is coming to San ... month to get work done on their tattoo body suits. Sal Reynaga's tattoo journey with ...

"Irezumi," the Japanese word for inserting ink and the term used to describe the full body suit, is a beautiful expression of individualism that was meant to remain hidden from the public. Tattoos ...

In Japan tattoos have long been stigmatized for their association with organized crime gangs, the Yakuza, who pledge their allegiance with full-body ... of irezumi – traditional Japanese tattooing.

full-body irezumi tattoos. As Japan opened up to the outside world in the 1800s, tattoos were outlawed — along with snake-charming and public nudity — because the Japanese feared that outsiders would ...

where Yoshiwara's courtesans and street ruffians became the first irezumi (tattoo) aficionados at the turn of the century. For some, "Wabori: Traditional Japanese Tattoo" may be the perfect coffee ...

And, although some spas, pools, beaches and gyms ban body tattoos, photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon met some of them at a public bath in Tokyo. The annual gathering of the Irezumi Aikokai (Tattoo ...