History tattoos

Tattoo among the natives of the Ryukyus symbolized several things, religious belief, sexual maturity, a sign of marriage, as Underwear ornament rinadlezhnost to the floor, and tribal patterns. Gluck describes another appointment tattoos for women Ryukyus, she served as protection from abduction, in the history of the Ryukyu Islands were often cases where the Japanese were stealing women from the islands for the brothels, but also the Ryukyu natives knew that the Japanese do not like tattooed women.