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Common Japanese Images – Sakura (Cherry Blossom)
Spring is in the air here in Japan, and I know it has been a very long time since my last post, and for that I can only apologise. A timely post, it is almost Hana-mi season here (the art of Cherry Blossom/Sakura watching) which means many many people will enjoy nature, by sitting outside [...]
Crazy Drinks from Tokyo
Spotted an advert for this vile sounding drink the other morning on the train into work, so had to stop by the shop and pick a bottle of it up!
Cute Sushi Tattoo
Love this tattoo, shamelessly borrowed from BMEZINE
Tattoos and Animal Cruelty
What’s worse than having your dog tattooed? Probably making the poor little thing wear one of these very very amusing tattoo themed ‘pooch hoodies’… If anyone has any pictures of a real dog wearing these I’d love to see it! Would you make your dog wear clothes? Available from retailers on Rakuten for the princely [...]
Woodblock Print Ota Masamitsu
Have been looking at some traditional wood block prints[1], which are pretty much the foundation of Traditional Japanese tattoo’s and came across this very cool print! More information about it below the image. The Story Behind the Print • The hero Danshichi Kurobei, stripped to his loincloth and showing his magnificent tattoos, fights and kills [...]
Terrible Name for a Tattoo Studio
Saw this over at Jason Dunns blog and it certainly raised a smile here, so I thought I would share!
Joe Capobianco’s Geisha Tattoos
Following on from yesterdays zombie geisha tattoo I thought it would be kind of cool to see some more zombie, vampire geisha tattoo’s, and when you think about this kind of tattoo, then one name springs to mind, and that is the supremely talented and super nice guy Joe Capobianco of Hope Gallery CT Joe’s [...]
Zombie Geisha
ZOMBIE GEISHA TATTOO – Saw this awesome tattoo over on modblog and thought you guys would like to see it!
Double Tattoo
Excellent example of a double tattoo, i.e. a character in your tattoo, who has tattoo’s too… Click here to read this post.
Common Japanese Images – Sayagata
The Swastika: in Europe, especially in Germany, most people know it as a right-wing symbol of the Nazis, Hitler’s emblem and banner of the “German Empire” below which crime and war were brought to our world. However the symbol had originally a complete different meaning. [reference] Sayagata is a design pattern of interlocking swastikas, manji [...]
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