Samurai fashion is in, so are samurai tattoos. New York tattoo artist Sumok Kim, who works at Chronic Ink, has seen a surge ...

The drama of the scene, as depicted by Japanese printmaker ... of a recent show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. According to Thompson, large-scale, full-body tattoos became fashionable ...

Those tattoos tend to be made by artists who have no connection to Asian culture at all ... informed their approach and philosophy. “My Japanese traditional tattoo was done by a white man ...