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" "I foresee a generation of elaborately tattooed homeless in the future," says Hata from Koenji's Inkrat studio, only half jokingly. "It's hard to get bank loans and rental contracts with visible tattoos. Things haven't changed much."
From personal experience, while tattoos get positive attention overseas, showing ink outside of Osaka, and Tokyo's Koenji, Harajuku and Shimokitazawa neighborhoods is not only looked upon unfavorably, it is often seen as offensive.
"I don't walk around town showing my tattoos off with short sleeves," says Tattoo Lifestyle magazine's ex-editor Maki Furukawa. "People get scared. Still, I want people to see them in a more positive light."
For female artists such as Ryoki of the Al Haut studio in Osaka, informing clients of potential consequences is essential to her job. For many heavily tattooed people, wearing stifling clothing in the punishing summer heat is de rigueur, as commuters will — no exaggeration — give them quizzical or horrified stares on public transport. And then there's the usual prohibition from hot springs, golf courses and gyms, which reflects the fact that mainstream social attitudes concerning tattooing are not in line with its popularity among certain groups.
"Japanese youth need to age, and their kids and grandkids need to get tattooed," says Matt Shamah, an American artist who is in Japan tattooing perhaps more than any other foreigner. "That's what it takes for social boundaries to change."

Manami Okazaki writes about Japanese tattoo trends for a number of magazines and recently published the book "Tattoo in Japan" (Edition Reuss, 2008, 320 pp.) with photography from local shooters Geoff Johnson, Martin Hladik, John Harte and Tommy Oshima.

" ☆ i am walking out the studio right now , the Hoshiro's ink studio .
this is my new design for my new ink .
i am half way there 'cause today we've finished the lines .
more two sessions to get the shades and colors .
about four hours or so to get it done : )

pretty much happy because as we changed a little bit the sakura petals design ,
it came much more unique than it is in this picture .
As you can see , i am very much obsess with getting my body well ink and done.
I do hope i'll have at least one more until the hanami next season .
but i've gotta save some cash first .
idk how it started but ,it doesn't seems like it will go away too soon .
we'll see ! ☆

btw: in there , someone told me that i am the wind in the
four element based on my date of birth and "decanato" . i have no idea where this word came from .
pretty cool cause you know .. this!!! . and i also have a Phoenix on my back .
So i was kinda wind like-ish anyways . . .

also . it seems that Air have influence on any element .
which it doesn't happen with the fire , earth or water elements .
i have no idea what does that means either but , so she said ☆ .

Copyright © jyoujo ( Yoshi ).
All rights reserved.
My images may not be reproduced in any form without my written permission.
♫ music ~love ♥
a l w a y s !

i 'm sure we'll grow ...
but we'll never bloom again...

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" "I foresee a generation of elaborately tattooed homeless in the future," says Hata from Koenji's Inkrat studio, only half jokingly. "It's hard to get bank loans and rental contracts with visible tattoos. Things haven't changed much."
From personal experience, while tattoos get positive attention overseas, showing ink outside of Osaka, and Tokyo's Koenji, Harajuku and Shimokitazawa neighborhoods is not only looked upon unfavorably, it is often seen as offensive.
"I don't walk around town showing my tattoos off with short sleeves," says Tattoo Lifestyle magazine's ex-editor Maki Furukawa. "People get scared. Still, I want people to see them in a more positive light."
For female artists such as Ryoki of the Al Haut studio in Osaka, informing clients of potential consequences is essential to her job. For many heavily tattooed people, wearing stifling clothing in the punishing summer heat is de rigueur, as commuters will — no exaggeration — give them quizzical or horrified stares on public transport. And then there's the usual prohibition from hot springs, golf courses and gyms, which reflects the fact that mainstream social attitudes concerning tattooing are not in line with its popularity among certain groups.
"Japanese youth need to age, and their kids and grandkids need to get tattooed," says Matt Shamah, an American artist who is in Japan tattooing perhaps more than any other foreigner. "That's what it takes for social boundaries to change."

Manami Okazaki writes about Japanese tattoo trends for a number of magazines and recently published the book "Tattoo in Japan" (Edition Reuss, 2008, 320 pp.) with photography from local shooters Geoff Johnson, Martin Hladik, John Harte and Tommy Oshima.

" ☆ i am walking out the studio right now , the Hoshiro's ink studio .
this is my new design for my new ink .
i am half way there 'cause today we've finished the lines .
more two sessions to get the shades and colors .
about four hours or so to get it done : )

pretty much happy because as we changed a little bit the sakura petals design ,
it came much more unique than it is in this picture .
As you can see , i am very much obsess with getting my body well ink and done.
I do hope i'll have at least one more until the hanami next season .
but i've gotta save some cash first .
idk how it started but ,it doesn't seems like it will go away too soon .
we'll see ! ☆

btw: in there , someone told me that i am the wind in the
four element based on my date of birth and "decanato" . i have no idea where this word came from .
pretty cool cause you know .. this!!! . and i also have a Phoenix on my back .
So i was kinda wind like-ish anyways . . .

also . it seems that Air have influence on any element .
which it doesn't happen with the fire , earth or water elements .
i have no idea what does that means either but , so she said ☆ .

Copyright © jyoujo ( Yoshi ).
All rights reserved.
My images may not be reproduced in any form without my written permission.
♫ music ~love ♥
a l w a y s !

i 'm sure we'll grow ...
but we'll never bloom again...