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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)

[edit] Plagiarism on AssociatedContent.com?

Googling around for "Nara black" I found an AssociatedContent article which seems to lift substantial portions of its content from the "History of Japanese Tattoos" and "Japanese Tattoos in the Edo Period" sections of this page, but fails to cite the way Answers.com and others do. Those sections remain largely unchanged from almost a year before the Associated Content version's August 2006 publication date, so I seriously doubt it works the other way around.

Is that kosher? If it isn't, I haven't made any edits to this article and don't have any claim to it, but maybe someone who has and does could drop a note to AC and see what should be done about it? Mockingbus 01:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)