Yeah, Puppy thought I was absurd for asking about if my tattoo needed to be covered. He thought that modern Japan wasn't still insane about the yakuza-tat connection.
I was watching his jaw drop as he said "But...look at her. She's not yakuza. So, even if it's covered you won't let her join??"
Yoga studios don't care, even if I practice with my tattoo exposed.
I'm looking into yoga studios, and into applying at a different nearby health club and just not mentioning it and changing with my back to my locker.
Before I came to Japan peple told me the tattoo would be a HUGE problem.
But I'm a small female, it wasn't. Little old men on the train were curious about it but nor repulsed. I taught with it. I did cover it at the elementary school (although it was often exposed at the high school) but no one told me to do it. I did more than two years of hot yoga with it...and I wasn't the only person with one. The amount of Japanese bellydancers with tattoos also lulled me into calmness...
You're foriegn and female, like me. Daily reactions to your tattoos would probably be about curiousity and, with the exception of public baths and joining a health club, you'd be allowed to forget that it's taboo.
Foriegn men are apt to ge a little bit of shit, but that's more about foreign men issues and tattoos being used as a tool to be sort of assholish.
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Date: 2008-04-13 09:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-13 09:47 am (UTC)I was watching his jaw drop as he said "But...look at her. She's not yakuza. So, even if it's covered you won't let her join??"
Yoga studios don't care, even if I practice with my tattoo exposed.
I'm looking into yoga studios, and into applying at a different nearby health club and just not mentioning it and changing with my back to my locker.
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Date: 2008-04-13 01:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-04-13 09:49 pm (UTC)But I'm a small female, it wasn't. Little old men on the train were curious about it but nor repulsed. I taught with it. I did cover it at the elementary school (although it was often exposed at the high school) but no one told me to do it. I did more than two years of hot yoga with it...and I wasn't the only person with one. The amount of Japanese bellydancers with tattoos also lulled me into calmness...
But fitness clubs, still...
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Date: 2008-04-13 09:51 pm (UTC)Foriegn men are apt to ge a little bit of shit, but that's more about foreign men issues and tattoos being used as a tool to be sort of assholish.