CNN: Fading ink: Japan’s ‘hand-carved’ tattoo masters fight to keep their art alive
Fading ink: Japan’s ‘hand-carved’ tattoo masters fight to keep their art alive
FOX 10 Phoenix: Tattoo artist brings Japanese hand-crafted tattoo technique to the Valley
PHOENIX (KSAZ) --Artists in Japan have been creating permanent body art, well before the tattoo machine was invented. They did (and still do) create tattoos by hand, and there's a local artist who ...
Japan's tattoo artists have existed in a legal gray area since 2001, when the country's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare decreed that any action that involves putting "pigment on a needle tip ...
Japan's Bunshin Tattoo Museum in Yokohama is dedicated to the work of Yoshihito Nakano, who is better known in the body art world as Horiyoshi III, a master of traditional Japanese tattooing. The ...
CBS News: San Jose artist uses tattoos to celebrate his Japanese culture
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 ...
CBS News: Ariana Grande's tattoo says "BBQ Grill" in Japanese instead of "7 rings"
Ariana Grande's tattoo says "BBQ Grill" in Japanese instead of "7 rings"
BBC: Tattoos in Japan: The eye-watering art thousands cross the world for
For Horimitsu, the sound of needles painting skin is a soft, rhythmic scratching, like a solitary cricket - "sha, sha, sha". For 30 years he has tattooed by hand in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, needing nothing ...