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It is a tattoo of the woman who put on the kimono.

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Uploaded on Sep 29, 2008

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This tattoo design draws the samurai of the legend.

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Uploaded on Sep 29, 2008

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This tattoo design draws the samurai of the legend.

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Uploaded on Sep 29, 2008

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This tattoo design draws "Wind god" of Japan.

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There are numerous styles, or scripts, in which Chinese characters can be written, deriving from...

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Uploaded on Jul 16, 2008

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The term samurai originally meant "those who serve in close attendance to nobility", and...

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Uploaded on Jul 13, 2008

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The samurai used various weapons, but the katana is the weapon that is synonymous with samurai....

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Uploaded on Jul 12, 2008

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Emperor Meiji abolished the samurai's right to be the only armed force in favor of a more modern,...

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Uploaded on Jul 11, 2008

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During the Tokugawa era, samurai increasingly became courtiers, bureaucrats, and...

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Uploaded on Jul 8, 2008

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Samurai(侍) is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. The word samurai is...

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Uploaded on Jul 4, 2008

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