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Japanese Tattoo Pictures      From Original Japanese Woodblock Prints.

Japanese Tattoo Pictures
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This page shows several Japanese woodblock prints from the Edo period (1604-1868), the Meiji period (1868-1912) and by a contemporary woodblock printmaker with some nice tattoos. The tattoos are displayed in over-sized enlargements for friends of Japanese tattoos.
Pictures of Japanese Tattoos

Body Tattoos by Paul Binnie      Images of Japanese Body Tattoos.

Body Tattoos by Paul Binnie
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Paul Binnie, born 1967, a printmaker and painter from Scotland, is in the footsteps of old Japanese ukiyo-e masters. Woodblock prints in Japanese tradition but with his own, individual and modern characteristics, have made him a famous artist all over the world. Since the 1990s he has created a number of woodblock prints depicting body tattoos.
Japanese Body Tattooes

Japanese Tattoos      Japanese Tattoo Prints.

Japanese Tattoos
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30 years ago only persons on the edge of society used to wear tattoos in Europe, North America and Japan - like prison convicts, prostitutes, or pimps. This has changed considerably over the last decades. Today many young people including women have tattoos. This has lead to a lively interest in old tattoo designs that one can find on Japanese woodblock prints.
Tattoos on Japanese Woodblock Prints

Cat Prints      Cata and Japanese Prints - Part II.

Cat Prints
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Cats have been a popular subject on Japanese art prints during all periods - from the Edo (until 1868) until our days. Part two presents leading contemporary Japanese artists who are well-known for art prints showing cats. All works were created after 1945.
Cat images on Japanese art prints

Japanese Cat Prints      Cat Images on Japanese Prints - Part I.

Japanese Cat Prints
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Cats have been a popular subject on Japanese art prints during all periods - from the Edo period (1603-1868) until our days. Some of the Japanese print artists are especially well-known for their cat portraits. Part I presents cat prints that were created during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
Cats shown on Japanese art prints

Gallery of Japanese Tattoos      Illustrated by Paul Binnie

Gallery of Japanese Tattoos
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This gallery of Japanese tattoos presents original woodblock prints created by Paul Binnie, born 1967. The artist was born in Scotland. In 1993 he came to Tokyo and remained for nearly 6 years. During this period Paul Binnie learned the correct techniques of carving and printing Japanese woodblock prints in traditional Japanese manner. Paul created his first tattoo prints during these Tokyo years under the guidance of master printer Seki Kenji. Since then Paul Binnie has become a famous and internationally appreciated printmaker and painter.
Japanese Tattoos

Japanese New Year      by Dan McKee

Japanese New Year
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Without question, New Year's (o-shogatsu) was, and to this day remains, the most important holiday within the Japanese festival calendar. Traditionally, New Year's Day meant much more than just the beginning of another arbitrary yearly round, as it does in the modern West.
Japanese New Year

Seppuku, Ritual Japanese Suicide      Japanese Ritual Suicide.

Seppuku, Ritual Japanese Suicide
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Seppuku is a ritual form of committing suicide in the Japanese society. Behind this gruesome and barbaric act lies the concept in Japanese thinking that an honorable death is more desirable than a life in shame.
Seppuku

Japanese Tattoo Art      Irezumi and Horimono.

Japanese Tattoo Art
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Japanese tattoo art has several names - irezumi or horimono - in the Japanese language. The Japanese tattoo art has a very long history.
Japanese Tattoo Art

Japanese Tea Ceremony      A Japanese Art Form.

Japanese Tea Ceremony
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The cult of the tea ceremony had spread from China to Japan as early as in the eight century. It became popular in the late sixteenth century, when during the Momoyama period a refined way of manners and customs developped among the aristocratic and samurai classes.
Japanese Tea Ceremony

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