Tatoo craftsman Yoshihito Nakano

Rather than a typical tattoo parlor, the room resembled a tiny school library filled with hundreds of books on everything from paintings to Chinese calligraphy. However, there were some clues pointing to this being the place where you could beautify your skin by repeatedly stabbing it. Chief among them was the sight of a man in his 20s lying down behind a screen while an elderly man hunched over a small pool of blood collecting on his shoulder.