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          Horiyoshi III is a horishi (tattoo artist), specializing in Japanese traditional full-body tattoos, or "suits," called Irezumi or Horimono....

          Born Yoshito Nakano in , Horiyoshi III is the undisputed master of the year-old tradition of Irezumi, or hand-applied Japanese tattoo.

        1. Born Yoshito Nakano in , Horiyoshi III is the undisputed master of the year-old tradition of Irezumi, or hand-applied Japanese tattoo.
        2. Born in Japan in , Horiyoshi III was inspired around the age of 11, and quickly got his own tattoo (from Shodai's son, Horiyoshi II). Then at the age of.
        3. Horiyoshi III is a horishi (tattoo artist), specializing in Japanese traditional full-body tattoos, or "suits," called Irezumi or Horimono.
        4. Horiyoshi III (born in ).
        5. Published by Haga Shoten in , the book is composed of a large number of Japanese tattoos by such masters as Horiyoshi II, Horigoro III.

          6. Horiyoshi III

          Japanese tattoo artist

          Horiyoshi III (Japanese: 三代目彫よし, Hepburn: Sandaime Horiyoshi, born 1946 as Yoshihito Nakano (中野 義仁)) is a horishi (tattoo artist), specializing in Japanese traditional full-body tattoos, or "suits," called Irezumi or Horimono.

          Biography

          Nakano was inspired when he saw a Yakuza (Japanese gangster) with a full-body tattoo in a public bathhouse when he was a young boy, "about eleven or twelve."[3] This inspired him to visit legendary tattoo artist Yoshitsugu Muramatsu, also known as Shodai Horiyoshi of Yokohama.[4] Nakano got his own tattoo from Horiyoshi II[3]—Shodai Horiyoshi's son—and lead to Nakano becoming Horiyoshi I's apprentice at age 25.[5]

          Horiyoshi III is the second tattooist to be granted the honorific title, which passes from master to apprentice.

          Muramatsu bestowed this title upon Nakano in 1971.[6] The tattooist affixation Hori means to engrave or "to carve."