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Horiyasu executes only large-scale pieces. [12] [11] His style is described as bold and striking.[20]He is mainly focused on traditional tattooing themes such as Buddhist deities, dragons, tigers, samurai warriors, historical protective personalities, water and floral motifs (such as goldfish and peonies or carps), working mostly for male clients.
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.
Men are slightly more likely to have a tattoo than women. Since the 1970s, tattoos have become a mainstream part of Western fashion, common both for men and women, and among all economic classes [82] and to age groups from the later teen years to middle age. For many young Americans, the tattoo has taken on a decidedly different meaning than ...
Horiyoshi III (Japanese: 三代目彫よし, Hepburn: Sandaime Horiyoshi, born 1946 as Yoshihito Nakano (中野 義仁)) is a horishi (tattoo artist), specializing in Japanese traditional full-body tattoos, or "suits," called Irezumi or Horimono.
It’s all about “natural beauty,” and tattoos directly conflict with what Korean women are expected to look like. “[Tattoos] are normally related to gang members, yakuza , things like that ...
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Among the leading aesthetic salons in Japan are the Tokyo Beauty Center with 417 shops and average annual sales of ¥41.7 billion ($398 million), [2] Socie with 74 shops and average annual sales of ¥21.5 billion ($205 million), [3] Takano Yuri Beauty Clinic with 120 shops and average annual sales of ¥16 billion ($152 million), [4] and Slim Beauty House with 102 shops and average annual sales ...
American servicemen during World War II were taught that one could distinguish between some Okinawan women and mainland Japanese women through hajichi. Nonetheless the practise became less and less common over time and by the 1950s most young women in Okinawa rejected getting the traditional tattoos.