Not all dragon tales come from Japanese and Chinese culture. A dragon tattoo may have more recent ... or simpler and more symbolic. Some designs lean more feminine while others scream masculinity.

After the Second World War, Japanese tattoos (known as "irezumi") were ... depending on skin type, body size and design. "Dragon is most requests I get," he says. "I like make it, never boring.

"It seems like every two or three days we are doing a koi (carp) half-sleeve or a dragon tattoo. People in the States are going nuts for Japanese. It's really blown up over the last two years ...

tattoo artist Bobo Chen is refreshing a scene from a Japanese epic with new ink on a client’s back. The vivid image depicts a fictional Japanese hero fighting a tiger and dragon, symbolic of ...