People as pictures

In this piece of writing of "People as picture" by New society, I thought that it was a very informative piece of writing about irezumi tattoos.  I really enjoyed this piece of writing because I think that it is a intersting topic and I love to learn new thinks.  One part about irezumi tattoos it that the tattoo itself seems like it would be very painful and that a lot of the people in Japan don't like it so if you were to go to the public showers the people that have the tattoos would wear a suit resembling a Victorian bathing costume which covers everything but the stomach.  So I was thinking if the people in Japan don't like it and it is really painful than why would you get a irezumi tattoo. Irezumi tattoos are more primarily in the lower class during the Edo era and now the irezumi tattoos are in the decline.  One thing that I thought was cool was that they are still using some of those designs in modern tattoo today.