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Posted by: BaghdadBean
There are a few people who match this description. The one in Hawai'i that I know of may be the one you're referring to. The guy uses a tapper (kinda like a wooden handle with several needles embedded in the end) for doing tattoo work, and he has a couple different kinds for lines or shading.
He only tattoos native Hawaiians and Japanese-Hawaiians. If you're white, Chinese, black, red, pink, purple, whatever, he'll turn you away with decent manners and an absolutely zero nonsense sort of attitude.
This form of tattooing is actually practiced all across the Pacific. There are artists in Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand, New Guinea, the Maldives, etc who operate under similar auspices. If it weren't for the fact that a lot of Japanese traditional artists do the same style of story-building ink, I'd say it was a Polynesian thing. With the Japanese culture, this was something that was typically only done for Yakuza, and the tattoos were nearly full body with the exception of all those places that would be exposed in a kimono robe at a public bath house. With Maori cultures, the tattoos are often full body in a long lasting legacy, but some were for specific body parts.
For some of the Pacific Islands, it's mainly a face, arms, and thighs thing.
No, I will not share the guy in Hawai'i's name. But hopefully this answered a few questions for you.
Heh, if he was a white guy that only tattooed other white guys, he would be arrested for racism, no matter how politely he turns them down