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Tattooing has been a part of travel for centuries. Its history is complicated.
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2619" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tattooing-has-been-a-part-of-travel-for-centuries-its-history-is-complicated/ar-BB1avWpd" target="_blank"><strong>Tattooing has been a part of travel for centuries. Its history is complicated. - MSN</strong></a></p><p></p><p>In today’s travel guides to Japan, tattoos are generally only mentioned in the context of places where tourists should be prepared to cover them up, such as gyms, public pools and bathing houses known as onsens. A century ago, it was a very different story.</p><p></p><p>Guidebooks, like Basil Hall Chamberlain’s 1893 “<a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Handbook_for_Travellers_in_Japan.html?id=KOMBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">Handbook for Travellers in Japan</a>,” feature ads for fine art galleries that double as tattoo parlors; you could pick up a piece of Japanese pottery while getting a more permanent souvenir. In “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/VACATION_DAYS_IN_HAWAII_AMD_JAPAN/Nrkssc0BjoAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA5&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">Vacation Days in Hawaii and Japan</a>,” published in the early 1900s, Philadelphia-based writer Charles M. Taylor Jr. devotes multiple pages to a meeting with Hori Chiyo, an artist who claimed to have tattooed the British princes Albert Victor and George (the future King George V).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2619, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tattooing-has-been-a-part-of-travel-for-centuries-its-history-is-complicated/ar-BB1avWpd'][B]Tattooing has been a part of travel for centuries. Its history is complicated. - MSN[/B][/URL] In today’s travel guides to Japan, tattoos are generally only mentioned in the context of places where tourists should be prepared to cover them up, such as gyms, public pools and bathing houses known as onsens. A century ago, it was a very different story. Guidebooks, like Basil Hall Chamberlain’s 1893 “[URL='https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Handbook_for_Travellers_in_Japan.html?id=KOMBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1#v=onepage&q&f=false']Handbook for Travellers in Japan[/URL],” feature ads for fine art galleries that double as tattoo parlors; you could pick up a piece of Japanese pottery while getting a more permanent souvenir. In “[URL='https://www.google.com/books/edition/VACATION_DAYS_IN_HAWAII_AMD_JAPAN/Nrkssc0BjoAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA5&printsec=frontcover']Vacation Days in Hawaii and Japan[/URL],” published in the early 1900s, Philadelphia-based writer Charles M. Taylor Jr. devotes multiple pages to a meeting with Hori Chiyo, an artist who claimed to have tattooed the British princes Albert Victor and George (the future King George V). [/QUOTE]
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