Chiang Mai — Hand Poke The old capital of Lanna: where the leg tattoo was ordinary, where the yant is still done, and where this site is written. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/chiang-mai/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
hajichi — Hand Poke Needle-strike. Written with the characters for needle and thrust. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/hajichi-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 49K
Sak kha lai — Hand Poke The Lanna leg tattoo: waist to knee, sometimes to the ankle, dense enough that the murals paint it as a pair of black trousers. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/sak-kha-lai/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 58K
irezumi — Hand Poke Inserting ink. The word names the material and the direction of travel, and nothing about the hand. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/irezumi-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
anchi-piri — Hand Poke Obsidian and a cut: the word carries the tool and the wound, and no word for ink. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/anchi-piri/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
veiqia — Hand Poke The practice and the marks, in one word — and a tattooist is a *dauveiqia*, one who does veiqia. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/veiqia-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
ptasan — Hand Poke Related to the Atayal word for writing and marking — the face as a written surface. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/ptasan/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 49K
The stencil book — Hand Poke A volume in the corpus this site counted is exactly what its title says: yant patterns for tattooists to trace. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/art/stencils/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
godna — Hand Poke To prick. The noun for the tattoo and the verb for the needle are the same word. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/godna-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 49K
batok — Hand Poke From Proto-Austronesian *beCik, tattoo, with relatives *patik, mottled, and *burik, speckled — the word for a pattern, applied to skin, cloth and pot alike. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/term/batok-word/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
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