Hajichi -- banned tattoo practice originating in Okinawa, Japan

haitai (hello), hajichā (hajichi practitioner) here.

to clarify, the practice was banned by the Japanese as an attempt to destroy us. I am the first to have hajichi in my family in at least five generations, possibly more but my family lineage and history was heavily wiped out during the battle of okinawa

that first picture? its staged. it was taken after the ban, and if you were caught giving hajichi you would be imprisoned.

the other pictures are an attempt to preserve the culture—notice how the hands are aged.

those drawings? done by a non-okinawan anthropologist who called the practice barbaric, but his work contains some of the only references we have left.

okinawans are not japanese. okinawan isn’t even what we’re really called, but we’re forced to use what name people recognize. we are the indigenous population of loo choo (sometimes seen as ryukyu but that’s the japanese pronunciation)

very long story made very short, japan kidnapped our king, illegally annexed the kingdom, then proceeded to destroy us by banning and dismantling our entire culture, from language to spirituality to hajichi and more. we are still treated as second/third class citizens today.

we’re still being killed off, both literally and culturally, by both japan and the united states.

nifē dēbiru (thank you)

for those interested in learning more, please contact me privately. due to the sacredness of this practice and its vulnerability to exploitation, I prefer not to discuss the details of hajichi publicly.

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this is true for eyad’s campaign as well, even though he tells me every day the conditions that he and his family have to endure.

i don’t know what else i can say to grab and sustain people’s attention. i just hope you donate to eyad’s campaign and share it if you cannot.

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Ao3 campaign filling up in a blink of an eye is a joke

At this point making fun of it feels bad. Idk who are donating. But you people have money for your fic website but have no money for human lives.

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depiction isn't endorsement but not all depictions have the same merit

the more sensitive a subject is the harsher the criticism will be if you fuck it up. that's how this works

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