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Kiku Punk
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Kiku began tattooing in Japan in 1996 and moved to New York in 1999. Co-owner of Good Luck NYC, he works in a playful wabi-sabi Japanese style, hand-drawing each design on the skin and using bold traditional colors rooted in classic iconography.
Styles
irezumi
japanese
New York, United States
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