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  2. Horiyoshi III - Wikipedia

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    Nakano was inspired when he saw a Yakuza (Japanese gangster) with a full-body tattoo in a public bathhouse when he was a young boy, "about eleven or twelve." [3] This inspired him to visit legendary tattoo artist Yoshitsugu Muramatsu, also known as Shodai Horiyoshi of Yokohama. [4]

  3. Irezumi - Wikipedia

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    Irezumi (入れ墨, lit. ' inserting ink ') (also spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket term to describe a number of tattoo styles originating in Japan, including tattooing traditions from both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan Kingdom.

  4. Body suit (tattoo) - Wikipedia

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    A body suit or full body suit is an extensive tattoo, usually of a similar pattern, style or theme that covers the entire torso or the entire body. [1] They are associated with traditional Japanese tattooing as well as with some freak show and circus performers. [ 2 ]

  5. Bakuto - Wikipedia

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    Dealers of card or dice games often displayed these full-body tattoos shirtless while playing. This eventually led to the modern yakuza tradition of full-body tattooing. [1] [4] Bakuto were also responsible for introducing the tradition of yubitsume, or self-mutilation as a form of apology, to yakuza culture. [3] [4] [5]

  6. Yakuza - Wikipedia

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    Many yakuza have full-body tattoos (including their genitalia). These tattoos, known as irezumi in Japan, are still often "hand-poked", that is, the ink is inserted beneath the skin using non-electrical, hand-made, and handheld tools with needles of sharpened bamboo or steel. The procedure is expensive and painful, and can take years to complete.

  7. Characters of the Yakuza series - Wikipedia

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    A former body double to Joon-gi Han from The Song of Life appears in Like a Dragon as a member of the Geomijul, a splinter group to the Jingweon Mafia operating out of Isezaki Ijincho. He is the strategist and second-in-command of Seong-hui, the Geomijul leader, who joins Ichiban Kasuga's group following a period of upheaval within Isezaki ...

  8. Could This Overlooked Organ Hold The Key To Living Longer?

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    The female body has estrogen receptors almost everywhere, Garrison explains, so, as estrogen levels begin to fluctuate during perimenopause, then drop after menopause, the impacts can be far-reaching.

  9. Criminal tattoo - Wikipedia

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    Modern yakuza tattoos, with common symbols and visual motifs, are noted for their similarity to current Western tattoo styles. [14] Current Yakuza have full-body tattoos, typically inked in secret by tattoo artists associated with clans.