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 ...

He’s put 70 hours of work into Taylor’s left leg, and it’s about 75 percent done. McClintock, who sports sleeve tattoos himself, is a master of horimono, an elaborate Japanese tattoo art.

There were clues that he’d dabbled in tattoo work in the daybooks he kept, but they were brief and cryptic: a ledger of family members and friends on whom he’d done 25- and 50-cent tattoos.

Thompson, a specialist in Japanese art, has worked as a curator in that field at the MFA since 2004. The museum is widely known for its superb collection of classical Japanese artworks (sculptures ...

According to “Tattoos in Japanese Prints,” a new publication from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, it was only in the 19th century that they were elevated to the level of art. Author Sarah E ...

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 ...

The Japanese as a culture has long been noted for its appreciation of beauty, but that does not necessarily extend to the art of tattoo. The show looks at Japanese tattooing and its ties to ukiuyo ...