Kyumonryu Shishin
In this print from Heroes of the Suikoden, Yoshitoshi presents Kyumonryu receiving his namesake tattoos. With all outlines and one sleeve complete, the tebori master begins to shade the hero’s shoulders. With his right index finger extended along the bamboo of the hari, the tattoo artist holds the skin taught and the sumi brush with the left hand. Depicting the prepared ink and different hari on the floor next to the artist, Yoshitoshi reveals the tools and practice of tebori during the Edo…
Japanese Tattoo Master: “The carving is one’s personal symbol..”
“People’s clothing are the ‘social symbols’ which allows other people to understand whether he/she is a Buddhist monk, a Christian priest, a salary man, or a medical doctor. Therefore the clothes are the symbols constructed by the community. But at the public bath, once naked, no one knows whether you are a monk, a priest, a lawyer or a musician. The tattoo is the individual’s own symbol. It is a different world. People who wear tattoos feel like they live in two different worlds. Usually…
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