Japanese Tattooing from the Past to the Present

A history of tattooing in Japan. Section headings include:
– The Jomon to the pre-Edo period
– Tattooing in the Ainu and the Ryukyu
– Socio-cultural Background
– Legal prostitution
– Kishobori – the vow tattoo
– Penal Tattooing
– The Origin of Pictorial Tattooing
– The Meiji Era (1868-1912) to the Present
– Nakedness
– The Yakuza and Tattooing
– Bath Girls and Tattoo
– One-point Tattoo
– Ethics in Japanese Adornment
– From One-point Tattoo to Tatuu