“Tattoos in Japanese Prints” focuses on how tattoos are portrayed in that distinctive genre but it is also offers a visual essay in the way one art form depicted another, noting that, as Japanese tattooing evolved, its artists were influenced by popular ukiyo-e imagery, too.
Japan’s tattoo art, in classic woodblock prints
via Hyperallergic 📷: Utagawa Kuniyoshi/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston