To complete this challenge, artists had to tattoo Japanese snake tattoos on their canvas' ribs. This is a difficult task since rib tattoos are painful, and it is difficult to make long, sweeping ...

Events Gaze at “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” at the MFA “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, a great ukiyo-e master, and his contemporaries.

'It seems like every two or three days we are doing a koi (carp) half-sleeve or a dragon tattoo. People in the States are going nuts for Japanese. It's really blown up over the last two years ...