Words — Hand Poke Words — Hand Poke nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/words/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 56K
The Ukok Plateau — Hand Poke The high plateau on the Russian–Chinese–Mongolian frontier where frozen Pazyryk burials preserved tattooed skin. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/ukok/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
Nara ink — สักด้วยมือ The ink used in Japanese hand tattooing, which reads blue-grey under the skin rather than flat black. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/th/ink/nara-ink/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Where the marks go — Hand Poke Each tradition here records which zones of the body it marks. Counted together, the zones sort into two kinds. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/body/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The words — Hand Poke The word each tradition uses, and what it means before it means tattoo. Most of them mean prick, strike or write. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/terms/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
The open questions — Hand Poke Questions this site cannot settle: whose designs, whose hands, whose photographs, and what counts as hand-poked at all. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/questions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K