Tattoo on japanese girl's back

This picture is from a fellow flickr user, boost_samurai.

In my eyes it is very beautiful art piece. It combines one of most aesthetic part of woman and adding more value through this intense body art.

There is a long history of Tattoos in Japan, which remarkably evolved very artistic.

This one combines Kanji Characters with Figures from japanese Mythology.

However, nowadays many people with tattoos are affiliated with yakuzas, organized crime groups. In many public japanese bathrooms people with tattoos are unwelcome because of this affiliation.