{"id":"irezumi","no":324,"name":"Irezumi","ja":"和彫","era":"Edo period–","family":"刺青の様式","kind":"スタイル","collection":"Dictionary expansion 17","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"MFA Boston — Tattoos in Japanese Prints","url":"https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/tattoos-in-japanese-prints"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/tattoos-in-japanese-prints","credit":"MFA Boston — Tattoos in Japanese Prints","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Utagawa%20Kuniyoshi%20-%20%E6%B0%B4%E6%BB%B8%E5%82%B3%20-%20%E5%BC%B5%E9%A0%86%202.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Utagawa%20Kuniyoshi%20-%20%E6%B0%B4%E6%BB%B8%E5%82%B3%20-%20%E5%BC%B5%E9%A0%86%202.jpg","credit":"国芳『通俗水滸伝』張順 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Japanese%20Tattoo%20by%20Kimbei%20or%20Stillfried.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese%20Tattoo%20by%20Kimbei%20or%20Stillfried.jpg","credit":"明治期の刺青写真 1890年代 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irezumi%20Full%20Back.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irezumi%20Full%20Back.jpg","credit":"和彫の背中一面（CC0）"}]},"essence":"国芳の水滸伝英雄画に触発され、背中一面から総身へ物語を彫り込む日本の刺青様式。波・雲の地文様が図像を包む「額」の構成が、身体を一枚の浮世絵に変える。","cues":["背中一面の物語構成","波と雲の額彫り","浮世絵由来の図像","身体に沿う流れの設計"],"intents":["反骨","高級","静けさ"],"works":["身体の曲面に沿わせる大面積の刺青と、その下絵をひく仕事","和の物語を、断片でなく連続として見せる壁画や暖簾"],"recipe":{"type":"文字を用いず、波と雲の地文様が図像の額の役を担う","layout":"背骨を軸に主図を据え、四肢へ流れを逃がして繋げる","material":"墨のぼかしに差し色を少量。肌の色を地として残す"},"avoid":"図像を切り抜いて散らし、地文様の繋がりを省くため、身体の動きと絵の流れが噛み合わない。","colors":["#dbd4bf","#963323","#133256"],"motif":"screen","pair":["american-traditional-tattoo","ukiyo-e"],"study":["国芳の水滸伝シリーズ","彫師の系譜と徒弟制","図像の意味体系（龍・鯉・般若）"],"en":{"essence":"Japanese tattooing that took its cue from Kuniyoshi's Suikoden heroes, carving a narrative across the whole back and outward over the body. Ground patterns of wave and cloud wrap each figure in a frame, and the body becomes a single ukiyo-e.","cues":["Full-back narrative composition","Wave-and-cloud framing","Ukiyo-e derived imagery","Flow designed to the body"],"works":["Large-area tattoo work and the underdrawing that follows a body's curves","Murals or noren showing Japanese narrative as continuity, not fragments"],"recipe":{"type":"No lettering, with wave and cloud grounds serving as the frame","layout":"The main figure on the spine, flow released out into the limbs","material":"Graded sumi with sparing accent color, skin left as the ground"},"avoid":"Cutting motifs out and scattering them without the connecting ground pattern leaves the drawing fighting the way the body moves.","study":["Kuniyoshi's Suikoden series","the lineage and apprenticeship of horishi","the meaning system of dragon, carp and hannya"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/irezumi","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/irezumi","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/irezumi/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/irezumi/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}