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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

While a small western-style tattoo might be seen as a fashion item, sporting a more elaborate Japanese-style irezumi may prevent ... theory that the elaborate full-body works Japanese tattoos ...