Favored by hardened yakuza gang members and law-abiding body art purists alike, large-scale Japanese tattoos are widely celebrated for their distinctive style, mythological motifs and vibrant ...

Oscar is a white guy living in Austin, Texas, with a penchant for Japanese-style tattoos ... The first Playboy Playmate with a visible tattoo debuted her body art in 1993, and Mattel released ...

While plenty of tattooers struggle to find a solid unique style using ... coil and rotary tattoo thingamajigs – or even electricity, for that matter. Hand-tapped styles like Japanese tebori ...

Exposed to body ... style modernization policies. Among them: a law banning tattoos, which were seen as “barbaric.” Although that ban was lifted in 1948, the stigma remained. Yakuza, or ...

The drama of the scene, as depicted by Japanese printmaker Utagawa Kuniyoshi ... According to Thompson, large-scale, full-body tattoos became fashionable amid the distribution of Kuniyoshi ...

The judges didn't like the layout or how the tattoo fit on the body. Guest Judge Taki also said that Scott's design was "insulting and utterly incorrect" for the Japanese style. The judges named ...

LIFE-size photographs of full body Japanese-style tattoos by international acclaimed tattoo artists will be on display in an exhibition in Chippendale that opens tonight. The Japan Foundation ...

Favored by hardened yakuza gang members and law-abiding body art purists alike, large-scale Japanese tattoos are widely celebrated for their distinctive style, mythological motifs and vibrant ...