The Wider Image: Breaking taboos: Japan's tattoo fans bare their ink
Tattoo artist Shodai Horiren, 52, shows her needles before tattooing a customer at her studio in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, September 4, 2020. "The fact that it's done by hand makes my work of an old-fashioned type. I take a bunch of needles and pull them together with thread, then hold it all with wax. Then I sterilize it. I think the biggest difference is that I don't use electricity," said Horiren. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon SEARCH "KYUNG-HOON TATTOOS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES