Tobi (host)

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Unpacking Japan · Tattoo artist explains traditional Japanese apprenticeships · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

So for you who, you have these big plans, you have these dreams, you want to take on more interesting project collaboration, you set up your shop in Tokyo, but at the core of it all, your ethos is still, the art comes first.

So where is the art at now?

Which direction are you taking now that you have the opportunities to be in these two cities, to be connected with so many other creators?

Preserving culture by imprinting it on people's bodies for the decades to come in a way.

you look back at at the the the hungry self of living in kagoshima wanting to become this tattoo artist and you see where you are today is that something you had ever even conceived i could i i could not imagine i could not imagine saying yeah one day i'm going to you know be running a tattoo studio two tattoo studios in eastern west japan

So with that, uh, that ship and crew, what's the next island you'd like to get off at and do something?

Sounds like a One Piece story.

I knew that was going to happen.

Growing the crew while navigating the seas and just taking sideways to other islands wherever the wind blows.

Yeah, they're still looking.

No, no, no, they're still looking for it.

It's getting quite complicated, but I think it has to be, I don't know, we can theorize and I'm probably no one piece expert here.

I might be flamed or canceled for whatever opinion I have on this, but probably something very simple.

Probably something that goes down to human values or something like that.

Maybe so, but I feel like it will be in line with a lot of the lessons shared throughout the whole journey and what this has all been about.

But that basically, we've been on so many of your journeys and so many of the islands you stopped at or when the wind took you, met a little bit of your crew that you have now through the stories you've shared.

We probably can talk about many, many more topics.

But is there anything that was important to you that maybe I didn't ask about that you think maybe that's something else that I'd like to bring up as part of our conversation?

Ori, Benny, I think these are beautiful words to wrap up our conversation.

And I'm sure people will have more questions and they may have some simple questions that I have not gone into, such as what was your favorite tattoo or what is a tattoo that you really want to do or maybe a tattoo you regret doing.

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