Finally The Rusuitenji Rising Dragon finishesd! This guy had come several times a year by bullet train from Yamaguchi for the weekends.Last year, I think it was only t

Musha-e One of the most popular categories in traditional Japanese tattoos is samurai warrior, called Musha-e, such as “Raiko slaying demons at Mt.Ooeyama”, “Hedesato defeating giant centipede”,

Kirin is a mythological sacred creature known in East Asian cultures. It appears when the king governs in perfect virtues called Jin 仁. 

On March 2022, it was found that the stone had split into two parts. Some netizens expressed their fear of the exorcised Kitsune. On 26 March 2022, the local government had priests host a ceremony to

Daikoku-ten climbing a ladder to reach the top of Fukurokuju’s elongated head to aid in shaving.

Fading ink: Japan’s ‘hand-carved’ tattoo masters fight to keep their art aliveI was interviewed by Oscar Holland from CNN in 2019.At that time, I was about to fly to Canada to attend

If you put a dragon tattoo with mouth open on your one side you need to put another one with mouth shut on the other side.

I would like to share this YouTube by OPB about Horisuzu because he said something very impressive in this video, though it’s a bit old.