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[edit] Quibbles

Excellent article, but two quibbles about the following paragraph, which I've excised for now:

Japan is the only society where tattooing is known to have become a prevailing social fashion, and Japanese tattooing, which takes years to master and whose secrets are jealously guarded by its various practitioners, is rightfully called an art form.

1. Tattooing has been always been a minority phenomenon in Japan, and there are plenty of other cultures (eg. much of Polynesia) where tattooing has played a bigger role, if anything
2. And it's not Wikipedia's job to decide what is 'rightfully' an art form.

Jpatokal 13:33, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article source

The section "tattoos in modern japan seems to be taken directly from this website: "http://www.tao-of-tattoos.com/japanese-tattoos.html". someone could have at least reworded it slightly. Hellfire83 23:47, 30 January 2006 (UTC)