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Chances are good you have seen Chinese or Japanese symbols tattooed on people. Some actually mean what the wearer thinks it does. Some do not because the translation is not precise. Ci Shen is the Chinese words for “tattooing” but the reality is that the exact translation is “puncture the body.” That is kind of [...]

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The start of tattooing in the west began when Captain Cook who was a British explorer sailed to Tahiti.  The Tahitians used the term “tatatau” or tattau, meaning to hit and this became today’s term “tattoo”.  Tattooing  became fashionable among Europeans, starting with the sailors and 18th century explorers.  Sailors and later, coal miners, both had [...]

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