YAKUZA TATTOOS

One distinctive feature is the Japanese mafia aka Yakuza tattoos all over their bodies. Not just any tattoo, pictures or irezumi for Yakuza made with detailed and beautifully colored. A tattoo artist like using your body to the canvas where he paints.

Yakuza tattoo history hundreds of years old. Probably as old as the Yakuza organization that had stood since the days of the shoguns and samurai.
Not only Yakuza men, the women also tattooed all over their body. Contrast the white decorated with multicolored tattoo.

Actually there is no requirement Yakuza tattoos. Especially now that the police declared war against the Yakuza. People with tattoos are often considered as Yakuza and accept discrimination.
But still, the Yakuza manato their bodies. Here are some reasons Yakuza decorate their bodies with tattoos.

1. To Be a Whiz In The Road

Yakuza business not far from extortion, and earn money by not kosher. The community was afraid of the Yakuza. They became a whiz in the road.
For example, if there Yakuza tattoos are a cab, cab surely it will immediately stop. The taxi driver was afraid that if not stopped will note the taxi number and 'tricked' the other Yakuza members.

2 . To Be Safe In Prison

Yakuza world synonymous with violence. Not infrequently they have to deal with the police and ended up in jail.
In prison, inmates petty would not dare disturb Yakuza members. This tattoo was so sort of protection for Yakuza considered certain tattooed. They are safe and will not be enslaved other prisoners.

3 . Respect for leaders

Yakuza is identical with the body covered in tattoos on his body. To make these tattoos, they spend no small amount even exceeded hundreds of millions of rupiah.
Many are mistaken, actually no special tattoo in Yakuza. Only ethics to Komicho (headmen), so it looks like a tattoo. So as respect for the leader.
Initially there are two basic colors that become a necessity that is red and black. Most tattoo Yakuza members were dragons, tigers, butterflies, cherry blossoms, flowers Chrysantinum, related images Buddha (Fudo Myoo) and demons or skull. But now more and more creative tattoo artists so that more diverse.

4 . Happiness beat pain

For tattooed body can not be at once because the substances for tattoos that contain toxins. In only allowed twice a week, at most three times workmanship tattoos. So no wonder it takes a long time to meet the body with tattoos.
Could not at once, can not be tattooed every day, two times a week. The solution is the year, there is also more. Depending on the level of difficulty and detail tattoos and colored or not, he explained.
For Yakuza beat pain as when the tattoo is honorable. Most excellent workmanship tattoo is by hand called tebori.
Because if we are using the machine, will quickly fade and the color will be lost, he said.

5.Love the beauty and the art of tattoo

Yakuza boss's daughter, Shoko Tendo, so amazed to see Yakuza tattoos all over the body. After age 21 years, Shoko began tattooing his body. According to Shoko, there is no necessity for a Yakuza tattoos.
There is no compulsion. I did so because happy with tattoos, I Shoko.

Shoko began addiction adorn his body with a tattoo. Almost all of her curves decorated tattoos. Barely left untouched anymore tattoos. The process is approximately four months for the entire tattoo, he said.
Shoko has a large tattoo picture woman with a knife in his mouth. But he admitted there was no special meaning.
Nothing is meaningless. If the creator of it just look really nice so that was decorated like this, he said.