{"id":1292,"date":"2013-02-13T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T14:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2024-01-03T18:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T17:21:28","slug":"the-painful-hand-poked-method-of-traditional-japanese-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/the-painful-hand-poked-method-of-traditional-japanese-tattoos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Painful Hand-poked Method of Traditional Japanese Tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Japanese tattoo art, known as irezumi, is created by repeatedly stabbing a &#8220;brush&#8221; of needles into the skin, as shown in this video. The artist repeatedly stabs the brush into the client&#8217;s skin to create the design, in this case a large koi fish. As you can see in this video, building up a rich shade of tattoo ink in the skin requires time, finesse and patience. The tattoo artist must color over the same area several times to create a darker shade. The hand-poked tattoo method can be very painful and time-consuming for the client.<\/p>\n<p>Irezumi is traditionally practiced by Japanese criminals, especially the yakuza gang members. You can read more about the tradition of hand-poked tattoos in the yakuza gangs in <a href=\"http:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/yakuza-tattoos-japanese-gang-members-wear-the-culture-of-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yakuza Tattoos: Japanese Gang Members wear the Culture of Crime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Japanese tattoo art, known as irezumi, is created by repeatedly stabbing a &#8220;brush&#8221; of needles into the skin, as shown in this video. The artist repeatedly stabs the brush into the client&#8217;s skin to create the design, in this case a large koi fish. As you can see in this video, building up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29,37,43,74,75,163,210,275,327,337,356,459,633,648,675,702],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}