Horiyoshi Sensei in the news

I've seen a lot of women, particularly young ones, with tats. Many of the markings appear to be gang related. I cannot understand why a female would want a tattoo.

Ice
 
Well, what Horiyoshi Sensei does is not "tattooing."
It is Horimono.
A picture of a heart with "mom" underneath it is a tattoo.

A pheonix surrounded by peonies is a Horimono.

Its a difference of class, dignity, beauty, intention.

I have a picture of a Japanese lady with butteflies going down her back and I think its the sexiest thing I have ever seen in my life.
 
That still looks gang culture to me.

Thats Yakuza isnt it?



Seems I cant add pix,

But If you click on the original link, I am refering to pix 4 & 5.

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Would like to see the butterfly tattoo though. Thanks.
 
well, it is and it isnt.
Its not "gang culture" but it is group culture, and Japan is very group oriented.
(Like your average high school)
Everybody is part of a group and if they arent, they are considered strange.
For many groups in the Edo period, the full body tattoo was part of their initiation. This was especially true for the firemen, rickshaw drivers, and other such groups of occupation or ethnicity.

I tell you the truth: the Horimono (japanese tattoo) people I have met in Japan have been the nicest, most generous, non-racist, cosmopolitan people in this whole country.

I feel lucky to be a part of their world...
 
Japanese tattoos are some of the most beautiful I've seen. I just have the "mom" types myself, Eventually I'm getting a sleeve of a koi and an octopus.
 
Danny:

I may take you up on the offer on the trip to Horiyoshi-Sensei's.

Currently in year 2 of what is essentially a massive weight loss program (1/2 way to goal). When I hit the mark I'm celebrating with the backpiece.
 
Can you hook me up with the woman with the quan yin tat?

I like this type of art a lot, but the ones in the past couple of years like the tribal I think will go out of style and then people will be stuck with all the barbed wire stuff.
 
Good for you Cabbit. Ive been on a low-self esteem eat whatever I want binge lately.
The weird part is, when Im overeating and going crazy like this, Im also insanely productive, creative and my brain just works like crazy..

Anyhow, if you can get over here, I can take you to Horiyoshi Sensei or Horihiro Sensei or you can get work done by my actual Horishi, Horitsuta Sensei.
I recommend Horihiro as he is fluent in English and can really understand what you want, no guessing. He is also a true master and yet not quite as famous, meaning busy, as Horiyoshi Sensei.
In fact, I can give you his email if you'd like to talk to him about what kind of work you want done.
The more time you spend talking about it, the happier you'll be when its finished.
He can probably do the outline in one or two days, but if it is a full back piece, the coloring will take ten sessions at least, depending on how he does it.



Azis, If you come over here, I could probably get you engaged to any single woman you want inside of two months. The men here dont ask girls out much anymore. They never say "I love you" but thats what these girls want to hear. In English, it has to be in English...
This place is like the Heart of Darkness when it comes to women.
All you have to do is hold the door open for her and tell her shes pretty and you've already done more than most Japanese men on their wedding day.

I had a very hot Japanese lady ask me out my first week here. I had never had a girl ask me out before in my whole stinkin life. This place can be a terrible temptation..
 
its not that, Dude. theres plenty to be disrespectful of over here.
ITs just the world of Tebori has a lot of misunderstanding around it largely due to misinformation and propaganda spread by the japanese govt.
 
The Sandi Fellman book is great, I highly recommend that one.
BIG pics are best. Small pics dont do it any justice.
 
Danny, you've taken us to this interesting topic before and I seem to remember reading that Horiyoshi Sensei has like a 6 month waiting list/back log of work? Doesn't a person have to make an appointment way ahead of time?

"The men here dont ask girls out much anymore. They never say "I love you" but thats what these girls want to hear."

-Huhhhhhh :confused: At what age does this happen? Aren't the young Japanese (junior high/high schoolers) immune/past all that? Does this set in during college years? All kidding aside, is courtship and romance that stiff?

In English, it has to be in English...

Gaijin power heh
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You could be right about the waiting list, I never asked..



The Japanese will tell you that they dont need to say "I love you" because they can just feel it, or they just know it.
Ask any woman if she doesnt need to hear it.
My mother in law told me that, in 30 something years of marriage, my father in law has never said "I love you" nor "Im sorry."
Not once.

The Japanese girls see it and hear it in western movies and they want it, but they aint gettin it.

The birthrate is down to negative levels.
 
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