Take an inspiration from Japanese fashion scene for readers of your fashion magazine. Tokyo scene is a concert of fashion creativity. Not only teenager, but also older are trying look great, sexy, attractive and unique. It's a concern of Japanese society and each girl or boy, woman or man to create something new or at least to be a precise copy of trends of Japanese fashion magazines.

Horikazu sensei is a Japanese traditional tattoo master, based in Asakusa. He is known among local people for a great balance of his bodysuits and incredible details of tattoos done by him or by his son Horikazuwaka. Number of traditional tattoo masters is decreasing with a wave of modern tattoo shops in Japan, however this family doesn't follow any modern trend what is still appreciated by many clients.

You can see tattoos in magazines, you can see tattoos in tattoo shops, you can see them in exhibitions. But nothing is like seeing tattoos in the flesh: real, living flesh, in front of your eyes. And nowhere better to see that than the famous, and utterly fantastic, Asakusa Sanja festival: one of Japan’s best live gallery for all the color and art of traditional Japanese tattoos.

"Seijin no hi" - "Coming To Age" is a traditional Japanese Festival and it's actually a celebration of age of 20. Adolescents are getting adults. In Japan all girls get a new kimono (traditional Japanese dress from a silk used in these days for a celebration purpose only) and go to a jinja (Shinto shrine) with own family or friends to show up, take pictures and maybe also to pray to local gods to marry....

Horiyasu sensei - neo-traditional Asakusa tattoo master, exsmith of Japanese swords who is known for his amazing colors and very straight-liner design of his tattooes. We had a chance to photograph him while working in his studio. Horiyasu has been awarded whenever he went overseas to join a tattoo convention, his style is well known and his popularity overseas is huge, however he is a humble tattoo master.