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Japanese tattoo - japan horimono or irezumi - a way of decorating the body by applying a dye to the skin. Complete Japanese tattoo

Japanese tattoos have many unique features that distinguish them from tattoos from other parts of the world. They are rich in colors, symbols, designs, tattooing methods and centuries-old tradition of making ornaments. Horimono is multicolored, consists of five basic colors: black, red, green, indigo, yellow, other colors are formed by the combination of basic dyes. The complete Japanese tattoo covers the entire body (including genitals) excluding the face, neck and hands and the narrow skin of the torso from the neck to the navel. The first horimono, known as the artistic tattoo, was decorated with Edo firefighters, their favorite motif was carp and dragon, associated with the element of water. This professional group is credited with promoting fashion for tattoos that quickly gained popularity among the bourgeoisie (chōnin), which included merchants, craftsmen and artists. Each professional group had different, reserved motifs, tattoos reflected the social position of the holder. Bringing tattoo art to the underground occurred during the Meiji restaurant when the tattooing of the body was forbidden by law. The ban was abolished in 1948.

The isolation of Japan has contributed to preserving the way of performing horimono in almost unchanged form, still many tattoo masters, called horishi, use traditional tools - tebori (which consists of metallic hari needles attached with silk thread to bamboo handle) and methods of applying dye in skin, and the same motifs that derive from the art of ukiyo-e woodcut, which often refer to Japanese mythology. Currently irezumi in Japan is very popular with yakuza members, so people with tattoos are fearful of society and are exposed to ostracism, they are prohibited from entering certain places such as the swimming pool or the spa onsen.

Japanese tattoos have contributed to the popularization of this form of body decoration in Europe, thanks to the English King Edward VII, who came to Japan from a visit with a dragon motif. The news was publicized by the press, and as a result, the tattoo became fashionable in higher spheres across Europe, and soon other aristocrats became holders of similar decorations, including: Jennie Jerome, King George V, Oskar II Bernadotte - King of Sweden, Haakon VII - King Norway, the great Russian princes Alexei and Constantine, the Austrian princes Rudolf and Francis Ferdinand, Queen Olga and King George I in Greece. Like the Japanese tattoo masters, English artists open the first tattoo salons. The first was David Purdy in 1870.

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