• 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...
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    specializing in Japanese traditional full-body tattoos, or "suits," called Irezumi or Horimono. Nakano was inspired when he saw a Yakuza (Japanese gangster)...
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  • Most of his fellow inmates are yakuza criminals, recognizable by their irezumi tattoos. Nick saves a yakuza named Kiyoshi from being hanged to death....
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  • Flower Vase a.k.a. Mature Vase: Tattooed Vagina (花芯の刺青 熟れた壺, Kashin no irezumi: nureta tsubo) (1976) is a Japanese pink film in the Roman Porno series...
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  • Tattooed Life (刺青一代, Irezumi ichidai) is a 1965 yakuza action movie directed by Seijun Suzuki. The film stars Hideki Takahashi as "Silver Fox" Tetsu....
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  • Fukushi Masaichi and his son Fukushi Katsunari are known in Japan as "Irezumi Hakase" (刺青博士, approximately: "Dr. Tattoo"). Fukushi Masaichi studied at...
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  • Tokyo Tattoo Girls, known in Japan as Irezumi no Kuni, is a strategy video game developed by Sushi Typhoon Games, Nikkatsu's video game label. It was...
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  • refer to the practice of traditional tattooing in Japanese culture; while irezumi usually refers to any tattooing (and often has negative connotations in...
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  • for his illustrations of "macho-type" men, often with yakuza-inspired irezumi tattoos. Mishima, along with Tatsuji Okawa, Sanshi Funayama, and Go Hirano...
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    Utage (1967) – Adachi The Sands of Kurobe (1968) – Yoshino Irezumi muzan (1968) Shin irezumi muzan tekka no jingi (1968) Showa no inochi (1968) Tarekomi...
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    variety of tattoos. Japanese irezumi, such as the rising koi, are traditionally done using black-and-gray, although colored irezumi sometimes use black-and-gray...
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    Hepburn: Horiyasu, born 1953) is a Japanese tattooist, specializing in Irezumi (traditional Japanese tattoos). He is one of the most respected contemporary...
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    perform several notable types of body modification, including large body irezumi tattoos and Yubitsume, the amputation of finger joints in penance to their...
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  • 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...
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    Publishing USA. p. 732. ISBN 978-1-61069-076-8. Gulik, Willem R. van (1982). Irezumi. Brill Archive. pp. 100–101. Robin, Marci (2021-01-19). "How to Curate...
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    known as the "wild man" and "tattoo minister" because of a large dragon Irezumi tattoo on his back. While many other politicians of his era descended from...
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    administration. During this time, he was nicknamed the "wild man" or "irezumi minister", from his flamboyant speeches. As minister, he unsuccessfully...
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    Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-782-00014-3. van Gulik, Willem R. (1982). Irezumi. Brill Archive. ISBN 978-1-782-00014-3. Williams, E. Leslie (2007). Spirit...
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  • everyday life -- without the process of getting tattooed," says Timman. The Irezumi tableware design by Paul Timman was named to Metropolitan Home's 2009 Design...
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  • v t e Japanese beauty practices Practices Hikimayu Oshiroi Irezumi Skin whitening Teeth blackening Cosmetic brands Isehan Cosmetics Kao Corporation Kosé...
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    inspiration and ready-made tattoo images to customers. The Japanese word irezumi means "insertion of ink" and can mean tattoos using tebori, the traditional...
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