May
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Tattoos I Would Regret
I’m pretty sure if I woke up the next morning with Hottoko tattooed on my leg and neck, I’d swear off drinking whatever inspired me to do such a thing FOR-E-VER.
Being permanently inked with the traditional festival fool is a step up from flaunting characters you think are the Heart Sutra but actually turn out to be the instructions for assembling the artist’s air conditioning unit, but the dude is quite a bit less fetching than floral designs, even ones that enshrine the sentiments, “I want to each other love love” and “You are my important.”
These photos are all from the 10th anniversary edition of the Japanese magazine Tribal Tattoo, and I’d like to add that the artists ought not to be held responsible for the, er, artistic requests of their clients.
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Jonelle Patrick is the author of the Only In Tokyo mystery series, now out for the first time in paperback
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