Tattoo in Japan

Group of tattooists from Argentina who specialized on traditional Japanese tattoo design came to visit and pay respect to Horihide and Horiyoshi III sensei, but they also came to socialize with the same generation tattooists. They visited studio of Horikazu...

There is a new book in our shop: Latino Art Collection done by photographer Edgar Hoill. Edgar Hoill, the co-author of the much-praised tattoo trilogy “Black & Grey Tattoo 1-3,” presents the ”Latino Art Collection – Tattoo Inspired Chicano,...

Sakura leaves which has been ones admired by all people are lying now in the water and mud of streets, not beautiful any more, but still with memory and feeling of beauty which remained.

Wall Street International  – respected international magazine has just published a new article about my book “Horikazu-lifework of the tattoo master from Asakusa in Tokyo”. Such article is great confirmation that not only my book is in focus of international...

I wish to all visitors of “Tattoo in Japan” Happy New Year and hope you are going to have easier nights in 2015 then the guy above!! What are you willing to achieve this year??

World of tattoo in huge in Japan, but it is all invisible……….. and officially prohibited. I have several shoots for Japanese tattoo masters for their New Year greeting cards every year. That always pleasure if I get such phone...

Original article: Japan Subculture Research Center Posted and photographed by: NATHALIE-KYOKO STUCKY AND JAKE ADELSTEIN Tattoos are as Japanese as sushi, samurai, and yakuza but in recent years with the crackdown on organized crime (the yakuza), tattoos have become increasingly...

Few day ago there was a chance to visit the “King of Tattoo Convention” one of the greatest tattoo convention in Japan. With 9 years tradition of this Tokyo located convention, it would be really pity if it is terminated. However...