CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Morgan Garcia-Lamarca’s bare back elicits gasps and wide eyes from those who glimpse the 14-inch-long Japanese proverb inscribed down his spine. The four black, broad ...

A spine tattoo (or anywhere on the back) is ideal for people who want to commit to one but can cover it up on most occasions, which makes this trend popular for, well, anyone. However, now that ...

Today, Japanese tattoo culture is studied around the world, and motifs of the Edo period live on. Underlying all skin printed with lions, eagles, peonies, dragons, and snakes, Kuniyoshi’s ...

According to legend, the tattoo was elevated to an art form by thieves and printmakers. In the late 1820s, a Japanese artist named Utagawa Kuniyoshi illustrated a 14th century Chinese book about ...

Ariana Grande currently has the number one song in the country with "7 rings." In celebration, Grande got a new tattoo on her hand with the characters “七輪.” In Chinese, this roughly ...

San Jose tattoo artist turns his Japanese culture into pieces of art A photo exhibit featuring traditional Japanese tattoo art, called "American Irezumi" is coming to San Francisco's Main Library ...

Ariana Grande updates Japanese tattoo, still can’t get it right By Natalie Musumeci Published Jan. 31, 2019, 12:47 p.m. ET ...

Events Gaze at “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” at the MFA “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, a great ukiyo-e master, and his contemporaries.

Sam Yamini founded Dedication Tattoo in 2013, and he brought a style of Japanese-inspired tattooing to Denver that’s magnetic and bold. “I started tattooing in 2001, and back then, there were ...