While plenty of tattooers struggle to find a solid unique style using a machine, some of the most advanced artists in the world are focused on tattooing techniques that predated modern coil and rotary ...
At a small, clinically-lit studio in Tokyo’s Roppongi district, fearsome warriors and mythical creatures glare out from paper drawings lining the perimeter of the space. The tattooist here, who asked ...
Japan's tattoo artists have existed in a legal gray area since 2001, when the country's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare decreed that any action that involves putting "pigment on a needle tip ...
PHOENIX (KSAZ) --Artists in Japan have been creating permanent body art, well before the tattoo machine was invented. They did (and still do) create tattoos by hand, and there's a local artist who ...
From behind a locked door in a studio in Sydney's CBD, tattoo guns can be heard buzzing. But in a back corner of the room, it's relatively quiet. This is because Kian "Horisumi" Forreal is using a ...
Tebori is Japanese for “hand-carved,” referring to the indigenous method of tattooing by hand using a sharpened bamboo stick called a nomi. Holding the nomi like a pool cue, artists insert the ink ...
As I lie on my back in a small Tokyo apartment, a 70-something Japanese man, half his right thumb missing, is rhythmically piercing my skin with minute ink-tipped needles on the end of an aluminium ...
Art met spectacle over the weekend at the 2012 Biggest Tattoo Show on Earth, presented by renowned tattoo artist Mario Barth at the Mirage. Now in its fourth year, the event is, as its name implies, ...