inkNara ink
墨 · Japanese
The ink that goes grey-blue under skin
What it is
The ink used in Japanese hand tattooing, which reads blue-grey under the skin rather than flat black.
The long version
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.
Connected to
- Irezumi Where it goes.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Irezumi — Wikipedia (en) |
Sources
- Irezumi — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there