The history of tattooing in Japan is highlighted in this exhibition in the United States organized by the MFA Museum in Boston entitled "Tattoos in Japanese Prints". Drawn from the museum's Japanese art collection, the exhibition examines the 19th-century social context, iconography and visual splendour of tattoos through Japanese prints, the printed media that helped spread them from the streets of Edo period Japan to 21st-century tattoo studios around the world. Among the 80 works on display are the greatest masters who have contributed significantly to its representation, notably the great Utagawa Kuniyoshi but also his colleague and rival Utagawa Kunisada and his pupil Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Exhibition open until 20 February 2022. More info at: www.mfa.org
