Japanese Tattoo

The Japanese tattoo is a very long history, and it first appeared at the fifth "fifth century BC. However, tattoos are not earning respectability for a very long time. From the 6th century AD, they were exclusively reserved for the punishment of criminals and untouchables, and the two have been identified, with marks on their arms or face.

Only in the late 17th century that tattooing began to develop a brand of shame in a decorative embellishment. But it was not until the mid-1800s it began to grow very slowly under the influence of a book entitled popular Suikoden or The Water Margin.

Finally, as the high society was always interested in the late 19th century, the government decided that tattooing has eliminated a threat to public morality, trying altogether. The country was opened to the West for the first time and was afraid that foreigners have the tattoo a bad impression, suggesting that Japan was a superstitious people, and contact with the outside world. Ironically, the prohibition of tattooing is not the foreign entrants, who were impressed by the complexity of Japanese labor and staying too happy to comply with the needles of control.

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