For those wanting more information and historical background about Japanese tattooing.
- Japanese Style - Body Art
- Japanese-style tattooing is very popular in Western tattoo culture. Take a closer look the dragons, koi, kanji and waves of Japanese tattoos.
- Horimono: The Japanese Tattoo
- The only English language website devoted entirely to the academic research of traditional Japanese tattoo culture.
- keibunsha.com
- The Japan Tattoo Institute is the first organization devoted to preserving and encouraging the traditional Japanese art of hand-tattooing known as "tebori".
- ORIENTAL IREZUMI AND OCCIDENTAL TATTOOING IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
- ORIENTAL IREZUMI AND OCCIDENTAL TATTOOING IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN by Helena Burton, Oxford University
- Japanese Tattoo: Travelers' Tales
- Japanese Tattoo by Dustin Leavitt. The author learns the history of this art straight from the master.
- Tokyo Journal "Horitoshi – deep skin" (02/00)
- Art can quite literally get under your skin sometimes. Especially when applied under the pressure of up to 36 specially sharpened needles. Dr D. Vice visited the studio of top Japanese tattoo artist Horitoshi, looked into the eye of the needle, pricked up his ears, and finally got skin deep.
- Tattoos & Tattooing in Japan
- Information on tattooing in Japan, Osaka - featuring Chopstick Tattoos, where Eastern and Western styles meet.
- Japanese Tattoo Art
- artelino - Introduction to Japanese tattoo art
- The Art of the Japanese Tattoo
- Japanese Tatoos and Japanese woodblock prints
- Sasuga Japanese Bookstore
- Tattoo Books from Sasuga - "Japan at your fingertips"
- Five Must-Knows When Getting a Kanji Tattoo
- from Tattoo Club of Great Britain
- .:Echo Magazine
- Lost in Translation: Here's what those cool-looking Japanese tattoos really say By Junko Hamaguchi
- A Koi On Keith Alexander
- Site about Keith Alexander's back tattoo of a large Japanese Koi. Pictures of the work in progress. (Lensmasters note: Keith Alexander was tragically killed in a bike accident in July of 2005, but his web site lives on)
- Japanese Tattooing from the Past to the Present by Mieko Yamada
- The origin of tattooing in Japan has been traced back to the Jomon period (10,000 B. C. ~ 300 B. C.). Jomon means "pattern of rope." Many ceramic pots with markings of rope were found in that period. Clay figurines produced in this period are called dogu. Scholars consider that some dogus show tattoo-like markings on their faces and bodies.
- Japanese Tattooing from the Tattoo Archive
- It was 1853 before most of the world got its first glimpse of Japanese tattooing. That was the year that Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry of the United States Navy opened Japan to world trade.
- TATTOO STUDIO DESPERADO
- Nishi-Shinsaibashi, Chuo-Ku, Osaka