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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 style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket term to describe a number of tattoo styles originating in Japan, including tattooing traditions from both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan Kingdom.
Some people, concerned about the professional ramifications of permanent tattoos on their hands, turned to temporary Hajichi made using fruit-based inks. However, some traditionalists object to these practices. [4] In 2020, an exhibition featuring pictures taken of hajichi was organized in Japan. [9]
Horiyoshi III (Japanese: 三代目彫よし, Hepburn: Sandaime Horiyoshi, born 1946 as Yoshihito Nakano (中野 義仁)) is a horishi (tattoo artist), specializing in Japanese traditional full-body tattoos, or "suits," called Irezumi or Horimono.
Sawako Kuronuma (黒沼 爽子, Kuronuma Sawako) Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese); Xanthe Huynh [2] (English) Portrayed by: Mikako Tabe (film), Sara Minami (TV series) [3] Sawako, the main protagonist, is a high school girl in search of friendship, but her resemblance to the horror film character Sadako Yamamura made this difficult.
Tattoos of Chinese characters and Japanese kanji are common in the modern Western world; often the characters used are ungrammatical, meaningless or incorrectly drawn, as neither the tattooist nor the recipient understand the languages in question and they merely choose the characters based on their aesthetic appearance.
The legends agree that even as a toddler, Kintarō was active and tireless, plump and ruddy, wearing only a haragake apron with the kanji for "gold" (金) on it. His only other belonging was a hatchet (ono or masakari). He was bossy to other children (or there simply were no other children in the forest), so his friends were mainly the animals ...
Top to bottom: 倭; wō in regular, clerical and small seal scripts Wa [a] is the oldest attested name of Japan [b] and ethnonym of the Japanese people.From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character 倭; 'submissive', 'distant', 'dwarf' to refer to the various inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, although it might have been just used to transcribe the ...
Kanji Igari (猪狩 完至, Igari Kanji) Voiced by: Toru Okawa (anime), Kiyoyuki Yanada (ONA) (Japanese); Brice Armstrong (anime), DC Douglas (ONA) [1] (English) An old pro wrestler known all over the world by his ring name "Antonio Igari" (アントニオ猪狩). In the tournament, he fights and defeats American kickboxer Rob Robinson in the ...