Irezumi (English spelling) tattoo

Japanese: 入墨∥刺青 - いれずみ（英語表記）tattoo

A technique in which a design is made by incising the skin with a sharp tool and rubbing or injecting color into the cuts. It is also called bunshin (painting), shisei (tattooing), gei (painting), etc. As a body decoration technique, bunshin is characterized by the fact that the design is maintained almost permanently. It can also be considered a body modification technique. In this case, bunshin is taken in the broad sense of inscribing the surface of the body to create a design, and tattoos are referred to as stab bunshin (painted mark bunshin) as a subcategory, and are distinguished from cicatrization or scar tattooing, which does not use color.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

皮膚に鋭利な道具で傷をつけ，そこに色料をすり込むかまたは注入することにより文様を浮かび上がらせるもの。文身（ぶんしん），刺青（しせい），黥（げい）などともいわれる。身体装飾のうちの身体彩色の一技法としては，文様がほぼ永久的に維持される点を特徴とする。また身体変工の一技法ともいえる。この場合，体表面に傷をつけて文様をしるすという意味で広義に〈文身〉をとらえ，その下位区分として入墨を刺痕文身と称し，色料を使わない瘢痕（はんこん）文身cicatrizationまたはscar‐tattooingと区別する。

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