DO YOU KNOW WHAT IREZUMI IS?

in #art7 years ago

Irezumi is a tradition that lasts more than three hundred years .

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It is found in Japan, though in recent years the rest of the world has embraced through the community of tattoo.

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When it started to become a trend , somewhere in the mid-18th century, the irezumi was done by hand.

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Later they began to adopt the technique of electric tattoo, the tattoo machine .

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Motifs borrowed from woodblock prints of the time had another meaning on their bodies.
It was a statement .
A statement which expresses so far .