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This is a discusion thread about the different types of tattoos and tattooing styles, you are more than welcome to recomend your favorite artist and shops, post pics of your tattoos, or your tattoos designs and sketches. Is just a general discussion about tattoo knowledge..lol
Horimono:
The origins of horimono can be traced to the late Edo period. In 1603, the then ruler of Japan Tokugawa Ieyasu centralised his shogunate government in Edo, what is now Tokyo. In the 200-year period following this, the established feudal system based on the authority of the ruling samurai class began to stagnate, and in contrast to the martial upper class the commoners of Edo began to develop their own separate, unique culture for themselves.
Rejecting the centuries-old strict ethics and morality of the Confucian beliefs of the samurai and taking up themes based on ninjō, fashion and comedy, the townspeople of Edo increasingly began to enjoy culture such as novels, drama, comic tanka songs and theatre. Works such as Chikamatsu Monzaemon's Kokusenya Kassen, Ayatari Tatebe's Honchō Suikoden and Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomihakkenden and many other publications based on ninjō, comedy and drama, picture books and artwork such as ukiyoe all combined into a massive, never-seen-before outlet of cultural expression for the ordinary people of Edo.
In this way the society of Edo developed, and the pride and mentality of the common people, exemplified by the otokodate, and the shokunin-kishutsu (the mindset or way of thinking of the merchant and artesan classes, such as the tobishoku) grew amongst ordinary people such as labourers, manufacturers, hikeshi (firemen) and gaen. Among these working class people, a minority began to imitate their heroes of the Suikoden, as popularised at the time in ukiyoe picture books by the famous artist Kuniyoshi, and ritualistically and painfully tattooed themselves with designs based on folklore, such as ryū (dragons), orochi (giant snakes) and shishi (Chinese snow-lions), and also religious figures such as various aspects of the Buddha, Fudōmyō (Buddhist deity Acalantha), Fūjin and Raijin (the Gods of Wind and Lightning) and Kannon (Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion), using sharp needles to insert pressed charcoal ink, called sumi, into their skin.
Sailor Jerry: Godfather of the traditional "AMERICANA tattoo style"
Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins (born 1911, died 1973) is considered the foremost American tattoo artist of his time. He expanded the array of colors available by developing his own safe pigments. He created needle formations that embedded pigment with much less trauma to the skin, and he was one of the first to utilize single-use needles and hospital-quality sterilization. His attention to detail was so precise that the riggings in his nautical tattoos were perfectly accurate. Artistically, his influence stems from his union of the roguish attitude of the American sailor with the mysticism and technical prowess of the Far East. He maintained a close correspondence with Japanese tattoo masters during his career. He regarded tattoos as the ultimate rebellion against "the Squares".
Sailor Jerry’s first studio was in Honolulu's Chinatown, then the only place on the island where tattoo studios were located. He thrived in the hotbed of competition. His work was so widely copied, he took to printing "The Original Sailor Jerry" on his business cards.
A mischievous sense of humor is frequently on display in Sailor Jerry’s work, which included such impish designs as the "Aloha Chimpanzee", an image of a monkey bent over with its head facing out from between its legs and "ALOHA" spelled out on its behind (with a red "O" that also doubles as the chimpanzee's anus). Yet he was an avid and vocal proponent of professionalism and craft. In the tattoo world, he was well-known for his frequent campaigns against middling practitioners, whom he called "scab artists". Conversely, he went out of his way to mentor those tattoo artists whose talents and attitude he respected, among them tattoo legends Don Ed Hardy and Mike Malone, to whom he entrusted his legacy of flash designs.
Horimono:
The origins of horimono can be traced to the late Edo period. In 1603, the then ruler of Japan Tokugawa Ieyasu centralised his shogunate government in Edo, what is now Tokyo. In the 200-year period following this, the established feudal system based on the authority of the ruling samurai class began to stagnate, and in contrast to the martial upper class the commoners of Edo began to develop their own separate, unique culture for themselves.
Rejecting the centuries-old strict ethics and morality of the Confucian beliefs of the samurai and taking up themes based on ninjō, fashion and comedy, the townspeople of Edo increasingly began to enjoy culture such as novels, drama, comic tanka songs and theatre. Works such as Chikamatsu Monzaemon's Kokusenya Kassen, Ayatari Tatebe's Honchō Suikoden and Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomihakkenden and many other publications based on ninjō, comedy and drama, picture books and artwork such as ukiyoe all combined into a massive, never-seen-before outlet of cultural expression for the ordinary people of Edo.
In this way the society of Edo developed, and the pride and mentality of the common people, exemplified by the otokodate, and the shokunin-kishutsu (the mindset or way of thinking of the merchant and artesan classes, such as the tobishoku) grew amongst ordinary people such as labourers, manufacturers, hikeshi (firemen) and gaen. Among these working class people, a minority began to imitate their heroes of the Suikoden, as popularised at the time in ukiyoe picture books by the famous artist Kuniyoshi, and ritualistically and painfully tattooed themselves with designs based on folklore, such as ryū (dragons), orochi (giant snakes) and shishi (Chinese snow-lions), and also religious figures such as various aspects of the Buddha, Fudōmyō (Buddhist deity Acalantha), Fūjin and Raijin (the Gods of Wind and Lightning) and Kannon (Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion), using sharp needles to insert pressed charcoal ink, called sumi, into their skin.
Sailor Jerry: Godfather of the traditional "AMERICANA tattoo style"
Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins (born 1911, died 1973) is considered the foremost American tattoo artist of his time. He expanded the array of colors available by developing his own safe pigments. He created needle formations that embedded pigment with much less trauma to the skin, and he was one of the first to utilize single-use needles and hospital-quality sterilization. His attention to detail was so precise that the riggings in his nautical tattoos were perfectly accurate. Artistically, his influence stems from his union of the roguish attitude of the American sailor with the mysticism and technical prowess of the Far East. He maintained a close correspondence with Japanese tattoo masters during his career. He regarded tattoos as the ultimate rebellion against "the Squares".
Sailor Jerry’s first studio was in Honolulu's Chinatown, then the only place on the island where tattoo studios were located. He thrived in the hotbed of competition. His work was so widely copied, he took to printing "The Original Sailor Jerry" on his business cards.
A mischievous sense of humor is frequently on display in Sailor Jerry’s work, which included such impish designs as the "Aloha Chimpanzee", an image of a monkey bent over with its head facing out from between its legs and "ALOHA" spelled out on its behind (with a red "O" that also doubles as the chimpanzee's anus). Yet he was an avid and vocal proponent of professionalism and craft. In the tattoo world, he was well-known for his frequent campaigns against middling practitioners, whom he called "scab artists". Conversely, he went out of his way to mentor those tattoo artists whose talents and attitude he respected, among them tattoo legends Don Ed Hardy and Mike Malone, to whom he entrusted his legacy of flash designs.
