{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "nara-ink",
 "type": "ink",
 "names": {
  "name": "Nara ink",
  "local": "墨",
  "local_lang": "Japanese",
  "said": "The ink that goes grey-blue under skin"
 },
 "region": [
  "east-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "colour": "blue-black"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The ink used in Japanese hand tattooing, which reads blue-grey under the skin rather than flat black.",
  "story": "It is the pigment the whole look depends on: the graded washes of a full back piece are a property of this ink worked at this angle."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "irezumi",
   "as": "Where it goes.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-irezumi"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-irezumi"
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}