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peterokii · 3 months
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i made a transparent version of the front of tat i imagined for kenshi, free to use if any mk artist want to skip this part of the lineart!!
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skeletonfumes · 11 months
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Irezumi (1966) Yasuzo Masumura
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riftek · 8 months
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iwai munehisa the man that you are
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tanuki-kimono · 7 months
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Irezumi kei (tattoo penalty) as depicted in the [徳鄰厳秘録 - Tokuringenbiroku], a kind of penalty instruction book compiled in 1814, digitalized by the National Archives of Japan.
CW for this post about Edo period judiciary => mentions of physical punishment, torture, death penalty (text only, no details, no graphic illustrations) . The irezumikei pages above are p.19 to 25.
I won't reproduced the illustrations here, but the Tokuringenbiroku book also presents other Edo period "punishments" and death penalties, like different types of goumon (torture), gokumon (decapitation and exposure of the head to public view), kakei (stake), haritsuke (crucifixion), or tameshigiri (sword cut testing, here on executed convict corpse). Please proceed to the full book according to your sensibilities!
Back to irezumi kei : the markings of character Akaza (from Kimetsu no Yaiba/Demon's Slayer) are directly inspired by those, same for Mugen in Samurai Champloo for example:
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After Tokugawa Yoshimune's reforms abolished bloodier punishments (nose or ear cutting) for lesser crimes (like theft, gambling or fraud), irezumikei spread, inspired by Chinese bokkei practices.
Yet, zainin (lawbreakers) were also often beaten or whipped (tataki), which could be a "light" sentence or more far extreme one. Women tended to be imprisoned instead.
Punishment tattoos also often went alongside tokorobarai (banishment), which had several levels depending on the crime. You could be banished to a remote island, just away from your city, or forbidden to enter a certain perimeter.
Exile is why different areas had different marks, placed on the arms or faces, easily identifying the person as a criminal convicted in another region.
Number of lines or dots were often used to symbolize repeated offences (pic below source). Most of the times, getting 3+ irezumikei could grant you death penalty.
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Irezumikei maybe be why criminals came to use extravagant tattoos, as to cover their infamous marks, leading to the yakuza association with body ink.
Yet, other strata of population also favored figurative tattoos, so the link between criminals and tattoing in Edo period is not self-evident.
Some shapes of -sode (sleeve part of a tattoo) for example left arm interior bare, maybe to prove then that no armband tattoo was hidden underneath a bigger design.
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zegalba · 11 months
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Irezumi (1966) Dir. Yasuzo Masumura
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squatinacaprium · 1 year
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Did this after i finished Kiwami 1 and 2
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abstraxia · 10 months
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An early example of Irezumi tattoos, 1870s
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refinedstorage · 2 months
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Bad City (2022)
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2001hz · 1 year
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Irezumi (1966) Directed By: Yasuzo Masumura
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may8chan · 7 months
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Irezumi - Yasuzo Masumura 1966
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otarope · 5 months
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A rear view of Mayhem in an agura tie. アグラのネクタイのメイヘムの背面図。 Model: MX Mayhem
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thevampdad · 1 year
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Was chattin with mutuals on twitter yesterday about Nishitani’s irezumi so I decided to design one for him~
Oni masks for their symbolism of ‘don’t mess with me’ along with ‘I acknowledge the darkest parts of me’ and the oni mask holds canid features.Ie the OG mad dog :>c
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skeletonfumes · 11 months
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Irezumi (1966) Yasuzo Masumura
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mamiutsushimi · 1 year
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sallymayblondeenka · 1 year
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サリー・メイ(Sally May) in Rashamen Oman: Higanbana wa chitta らしゃめんお万 彼岸花は散った (1972) AKA FOREIGNER'S MISTRESS OMAN: FALLING AUTUMN FLOWER.
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kaisermaschine · 9 months
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Onsen 温泉
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