Tattoo Designs

In Japan, there is a long history of tattoo culture and the first noted tattoos on humans was around 297 AD. 

Tattoos became illegal for a time but then, as the circle goes, in 1948 they were legalized again. Because people still associated tattoos with criminals, tattoo artists made their living by tattooing foreign seamen for a while. In much of Japan now, tattoos are still looked down upon but it is becoming more widely accepted in the bigger cities such as Tokyo and Kyoto.

The most commun tattoos are coy fish, they are a symbol of luck to the people of japan.