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Westerners have long admired the elaborate, richly colored designs of the traditional Japanese tattoo, or “irezumi”. But attitudes toward tattooing in Japan are complicated and ambivalent.

For many years, traditional Japanese tattoos were associated ... The controversial history of Japanese tattooing, or irezumi, can be traced back to around 10,000 BC, in the Jomon period.