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An image of kabuki actor Onoe Kikugoro V from the ukiyo-e series Azuma no hana (Flowers of Tokyo) by Toyohara Kunichika.
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In his popular woodblock print series Tsūzoku Suikoden (Popular Water Margin), illustrating a well-known Chinese novel, Utagawa Toyokuni depicted some of the story’s outlaw heroes with tattoos, as in this image of Zhang Shun.
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The Hamamatsuya scene of the kabuki play Aoto zōshi hana no nishiki-e (The Glorious Picture Book of Aoto’s Exploits) as illustrated by ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kunisada
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Catalogue of tattoo designs by Nagasaki tatooist O. Ikasaki, early 1900s (Collection of Horiyoshi III).
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An Australian serviceman photographed in South Korea in December 1953. He claimed to have gotten his tattoos in Egypt, England, Hong Kong, and India, as well as Japan. (Australian War Memorial, Campbell, Australia)
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Issey Miyake, Tattoo, 1971 SS/ 1970 (The Work of Miyake Issey, National Art Center, Tokyo, March 16– June 13, 2016)
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