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My Tebori Tattoo in Japan

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• Tebori
• Tattoo
• Japan
• Tabori
• Ryugen

[ValAktaion]

Tabori, could you please tell me what a traditional tattoo like this costs?

And was it done in 1 or multiple sessions?

[TaboriTattoo]

@ValAktaion Ryugen charges 15,000 yen an hour. You can do the conversion from yen to dollars online. My arms took 27 hours each for a 7/10th sleeve. I did three hours a day for nine days straight. One trip for each arm.

[bananasack28]

it looks like that is all done free hand? no stencil at all? am i correct? and also i was curious as to the pain of this method lol i mean pain has never been an issue in my other artwork but this just seems so...medieval, for lack of a better word, lol. I would love to know some more details so please hit me back! Beautiful piece man

[TaboriTattoo]

@bananasack28 Yes, it was done freehand. He didn't use a stencil at all, the outline was by hand and of course also was the Tebori. Well it sure didn't feel good, its tolerable, but at least double what the machine feels like to me, but pain is subjective. If you have handled it well before this should be no problem. Its not medieval, its traditional :)

Thanks ! 

[bananasack28]

@TaboriTattoo Alright :) yeah i mean this is as traditional as one can get haha beautiful artwork though. i have a koi 3/4 sleeve myself and it is similar to this but i mean the attention to detail and the time that goes into what you went through is just so incredible. you have an awesome piece there man, im truly jealous lol

[TaboriTattoo]

@bananasack28 Thank you !..He is an amazing craftsman...

[Shattered239]

Looks fucking good dude, no Tebori guys I know of state side sadly

[kjchu87]

This is a fuckin beautiful tattoo. The Japanese do the best colour tattoos.

[MrGoldman100]

ouch

[Isatsujinken]

@TaboriTattoo

Very cool TaboriTattoo, Please put up the video when you get it done. Also, are you going back to the same artist? I've been looking hard at Asian based sleeves for a while now, thinking about a year out from now and am looking for the right artist.