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          Horiyoshi III is an artist..

          He earned the title Horiyoshi III, after working as an apprentice for the legendary tattoo master Shodai Horiyoshi of Yokohama.

        1. He earned the title Horiyoshi III, after working as an apprentice for the legendary tattoo master Shodai Horiyoshi of Yokohama.
        2. Horiyoshi III is an artist.
        3. He received his Japanese tattoo name of Horisumi from Horiyoshi III, a master in traditional Japanese tattoos.
        4. Born Yoshihito Nakano, Horiyoshi III received his title from the late tebori master Yoshitsugu Muramatsu, known as Shodai Horiyoshi's apprentice.

          5. Horiyoshi III

          Japanese tattoo artist

          Horiyoshi III (Japanese: 三代目彫よし, Hepburn: Sandaime Horiyoshi, born 1946 as Yoshihito Nakano (中野 義仁)) is a horishi (tattoo artist), specializing in Japanese traditional full-body tattoos, or "suits," called Irezumi or Horimono.

          Biography

          Nakano was inspired when he saw a Yakuza (Japanese gangster) with a full-body tattoo in a public bathhouse when he was a young boy, "about eleven or twelve."[3] This inspired him to visit legendary tattoo artist Yoshitsugu Muramatsu, also known as Shodai Horiyoshi of Yokohama.[4] Nakano got his own tattoo from Horiyoshi II[3]—Shodai Horiyoshi's son—and lead to Nakano becoming Horiyoshi I's apprentice at age 25.[5]

          Horiyoshi III is the second tattooist to be granted the honorific title, which passes from master to apprentice.

          Muramatsu bestowed this title upon Nakano in 1971.[6] The tattooist affixation Hori means to engrave or "to carve."