An artfully tattooed Japanese man.

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Japanese man with artistic full-body tattoo

Japanese man with artistic full-body tattoo

Tattooing of this complex and highly coloured type was at one time not uncommon in Japan.

Source: Living Races of Mankind. A popular illustrated account of the customs, habits, pursuits, feasts, and ceremonies of the races of mankind throughout the world by Henry Neville Hutchinson (1856-1927), John Walter Gregory and Richard Lydekke. Published by Hutchinson & Co. Paternoster Row, London 1902.

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