About this episode
Meet Manami Ozakaki, an author who writes books on Japanese arts and culture. She sits down to talk to us about the history of Japanese tattoos, the artists who made them, and how Japan's tattoo culture is changing in the modern era.
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0:00 Intro
0:50 Meet Manami
7:31 Moving to Japan
16:23 Writing for magazines
18:25 Manami's books
24:53 History of Japanese tattoos
29:05 Tattoo conventions
34:45 Is perception of tattoos changing?
37:35 The beauty of tattoos
42:26 Japanese tattoo artists
59:28 How to find artists
1:05:06 Japanese book culture
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