Kengtung — Hand Poke The eastern Shan town that sits in the middle of the leg-tattoo zone, and in the middle of the Tai world the zone is drawn on. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/place/kengtung/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Japan outlaws it — Hand Poke Japan banned tattooing while presenting itself to the world, and foreigners immediately travelled there to be tattooed. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/meiji-ban/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Sicanje — Hand Poke Bosnia: Catholic girls' forearms and hands marked with crosses, circles and fences, pricked with soot and honey. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/sicanje/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 53K
The places — Hand Poke Villages, temples, quarters and museums where the work is done or the record is kept. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/places/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The Gebelein mummies — Hand Poke Six naturally mummified bodies from Upper Egypt, dug out of sand graves in 1896, two of them tattooed. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/find/gebelein/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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
The episodes — Hand Poke A ban, an expedition, a photograph, a revival — dated, and with the paper that did it where there is one. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/stories/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K