But they don't have what he's looking for: the centuries-old Japanese art of tebori, or traditional "hand-carved" tattoos. In the West, a longstanding fascination with this style has become a full ...

Until 30 years ago, Yoshihito did his tattoos entirely by hand using the tebori ... The Japanese government banned tattoos in 1872, as while the practice had risen as an art form, tattooed marks ...