Manami Ozaki
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622 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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um they stopped like partying and like doing creative stuff and they're just going to help out so um so all these like all these tattooed dudes were just like going up and you know like so it was a different atmosphere and like and if you were like in japan during the time you probably know but like it's just that just went on for ages like this whole kind of depressed atmosphere and
everyone kind of felt guilty about having fun and um everyone just felt responsible for like you know helping out so that yeah that just went on for ages and ages and ages and i think like the subculture kind of stuff is picking up its energy again but it's taken a really long time i'd say yeah but you see a tattoo from horitoku in a magazine you call him up like everyone does all the time and then you actually meet him he agrees to meet you to tattoo you
um it's a few things in parallel like i mean like um it's one of like there is an element that i do kind of like the kind of this kind of clandestine kind of underground um and also like the i think the beauty of the tattoo a little bit is like this this kind of like very kind of you know um
like the fact that it's not accessible is like one of the appeals but it's kind of like this hidden kind of beauty so um so like for example like um but yeah actually so i'll just go back to um but like i would say like um one of the reasons i like it is because it combines like the um this kind of like subculture stuff that i grew up with with with the craftsmanship with the very very serious like um
technical skill and also like the dedication to the craft the perseverance perseverance and there's also a lot of things that are kind of like inexplicable so it's like um it's like you know there is no functional purpose like you know with a lot of artisanal things like it's like a cup like you use it like there is like a functional practical use like
Um, there's, there's many kind of like elements, but like with the, with the criminal, like, so the association with criminality started because basically in the Edo period, like there was, um, these punishment tattoos.
So if you go to like the Meiji university, they've got in the criminology department, like they've got a museum.
And so it's quite interesting because they have displays on all the different ways that they'll get official punishments and stuff.
And so there's things like exiling people or house arrest or quite gruesome photos of images of tying people up.
And tattooing was one of them.
And so there's always been this kind of association with like criminality and, um, and tattooing.
And so, so for example, like with organized crime groups, when they were doing the tattoos is like initiation rights and things like that, um, and to scare people because in people's minds, there was always this association with like, with kind of like punishment or like criminality.
And, um,
and tattoos.
But at the same time, there's also other kinds of people like, for example, firemen, craftsmen, carpenters who are also getting tattooed.
Yeah, like talismanic reasons.
And that's also a big part of tattooing as well.
So there's all these kinds of interesting and fascinating elements that are still very prevalent today.
Because like...
One of the big reasons is because in the post-war, there was a huge, huge culture of yakuza movies.
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