01/06/2026
👹The MOST BANNED tattoo in Japan🇯🇵
Not my voice😂FYI**
👺Voice & information by Yoshi Irezumi 🙏
🥷Fireninja: .bryce
Fudo Myoo originated in 8th century India, travelled to China written in Buddhist scriptures with exact specifications: Furious face expression, wrinkled forehead, mouth & eye slanted, the sword of wisdom etc.
In the 9th century, Mt Koya Japan, a prominent monk once had a mystical vision of Fudo Myoo.
Legends it had to be sacred to the Red Fudo Myoo was painted with his blood.🩸 This is the image of what they thought evil spirits would fear.
Fudo Myoo exploded in Japanese culture in 1827, from a Japanese Artist Utagawa Uniyoshi, who drew these Chinese Novel Heroes covered in tattoos. People saw the images of the print, & wanted to get them in real life.
For 100s of years Buddhist monks & Yakuza have been getting this ink of Fudo Myoo as symbols of Bravery, Spirit & Power.
🇯🇵The irony is, in the 1872 Japan banned tattoos because they wanted to appear ‘civilised’ to the west. And ironically, the Westerners came to Japan to get them done. Like King George V (future king of England) came to Japan for the traditional Japanese tattoos (even with the threat of a samurai sword by Japanese Police if seen with one, he still got it anyway) .
Yakuza got Fudo Myoo tattoos as proof for pain tolerance.
The right of passage of being hand poked thousands of times the traditional way (Tebori) takes over 100 hours.
They sit with ‘Hotishi’ (traditional tattoo master) telling their entire life story: where they came from, what they’ve been through, what they want to become.
Then the Heroshi designs something completely custom.
Firefighters were also getting Fudo Myoo tattoos to protect them from flames and spiritual protection.
Mountain aesthetic monks were also getting Fudo Myoo tattoos in a religious sense & protection from danger.
Fudo Myoo is seen with religious Buddhist meanings, aesthetic values & personal narratives. You now see people now getting Fudo Myoo tattoos who aren’t Yakuza, not Buddhist, not Japanese.
Originated from a vision painted with blood 🩸 it makes sense with the connection of having i
