Artist with a needle

Usage examples of tattooer.

The sharpened albatross bone used by the Maori tattooer, had five times scored his countenance.

Seikichi had formerly earned his living as an ukiyoye painter of the school of Toyokuni and Kunisada, a background which, in spite of his decline to the status of a tattooer, was evident from his artistic conscience and sensitivity.

Deep in his heart the young tattooer concealed a secret pleasure, and a secret desire.

The second day was the worst, owing to the tattooer being the worse for licker.

The tattooer must have been an artist of great talent for the face of that jumping man was done with so much feeling and skill that one might have thought he was looking at the face of the devil himself.

I had wished to carry away on my own person, as a curiosity, an ornament, a specimen of the work of the Japanese tattooers, who have a delicacy of finish which is unequalled.

Finally it is finished, and the tattooers, falling back with an air of satisfaction to contemplate their work, declare it to be lovely.

The origin of the custom he was unable to find out, but in Burmah tattooing was a sign of manhood, and professional tattooers go about with books of designs, each design warding off some danger.

Here, too, were barbers and fortunetellers, masseurs, tattooers, and spirits knew who else.