ธรรมเนียมการสักHajichi

針突 · Okinawan

hajichi — the needle-struck marks on a woman's hands

ราว ค.ศ. 1,600 – ค.ศ. 2,026 · Banned by Japan in 1899; taken up again by Okinawan women in the 2010s

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หมู่เกาะริวกิว ลายบนหลังมือผู้หญิง ถูกญี่ปุ่นสั่งห้ามในปี 1899 และกำลังถูกนำกลับมา

ฉบับยาว

Hajichi went on the hands, where nothing conceals them, and it recorded a woman's passage — first marks in girlhood, more at betrothal, the set completed at marriage. Japan prohibited it in 1899 while assimilating the Ryukyu kingdom, and enforcement was real enough that the practice went underground and then out.

Inference — the ban's design is worth noticing. A mark on the hands cannot be covered by clothing, which makes it the easiest tattoo in the world to police and the hardest to keep quietly.

หมายเหตุ

Okinawan women, in Okinawa and in the diaspora, have been taking hajichi up again; this site has no count of how many.

เกี่ยวข้องกับ

• Irezumi Banned by the same state, twenty-seven years apart.
• Stopped, and started again On the revival list.

ถูกอ้างถึงโดย

• Where the marks go The hands, and the 1899 prohibition.
• Japan outlaws it And who else.

• Irezumi

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