Hajichi — Hand Poke The Ryukyu Islands: marks on the backs of women's hands, outlawed by Japan in 1899 and now being put back on. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/hajichi/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Counted — Hand Poke Counted — Hand Poke nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/counted/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The Veiqia Project — Hand Poke The collective of Fijian women artists who researched veiqia in collections and archives and brought the practice back. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/org/veiqia-project/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The framed animal — Hand Poke A tiger, a cat, a monkey, an elephant, a *nat* or a *bilu*, each sitting inside an oval frame of letters. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/motif/framed-animal/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Shway Yoe — Hand Poke The Scottish administrator who wrote the fullest English description of Burmese tattooing, under a Burmese pen name, in 1882. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/shway-yoe/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Saya Chein — Hand Poke A Burmese tattooist named in passing in 1882 — the only working *saya* of the period this site can put a name to. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/saya-chein/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The people — Hand Poke Practitioners, and the outsiders who wrote the tradition down — which is not the same list. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/people/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
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
Tap — Hand Poke A needle or a comb of needles fixed at a right angle to a handle, and a second piece of wood striking the handle to drive it in. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/method/tap/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
Wat Phumin — Hand Poke The temple in Nan whose nineteenth-century murals show northern men with their legs and torsos marked. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/wat-phumin/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
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