Video: Mutsuo Profile for Tattoo Age – “Part’s 2 & 3”

Here are parts two and three of the Mutsuo profile from season 2 of New Era and Vice’s series Tattoo Age. Part two focus’ on the Japanese artist’s personality and the origins of his entrance into the tattoo world and working at Three Tides Tattoo. We hear from Mutsuo, Chris Garver, and Masa Sakamoto, who is a rare example of a tattoo parlor owner who doesn't actual tattoo himself.  We get some insight into how western-style tattooing gained ground in Japan after the 1999 Tokyo Convention. We also hear about all the guest artists who have contributed to making Mutsuo the artist he is today.

In part three Mutsuo wraps up his Tattoo Age series by taking a little trip to his hometown where he provides a brief tour of the local temples and a visit his house where we meat his mother and father.  Mutsuo also provides his philosophical take on what tattooing means to him.

Video: Mutsuo Profile for Tattoo Age – “Part 1”

Here is the latest video in season 2 of New Era and Vice’s series Tattoo Age focusing on artist Mutsuo who tattoos in Osaka, Japan at the world famous Three Tides Tattoo.  Mutsuo went from being one of the shops first customers, to the shops first apprentice, and now he is the most senior tattoo artist there.  While at the shop he learned from the many American tattoo masters that visited Three Tides to work, and got what Chris Garver says, "a 90's style tattoo education."  In-between footage of Mutsuo working on clients he shares stories of his working relationship at Three Tides Tattoo with his fellow artists and vice versa as well as some history on the shop. Featuring interviews with Nami, Masa Sakamoto, Hiroshi Hirokawa.