How did you get interested in tattoo?

TAPPEI： It's a movie I watched when I was little. The tattoo on the back that came out in the scene. The Japanese sculpture is simply cool.

I was in elementary school. Do you remember what kind of movie it was?

TAPPEI： I think it was in the lower grades of elementary school. The movie clearly remembers "Zatoichi" directed by Takeshi Kitano. It was a shock.

Do you want to draw a tattoo? Do you want to enter?

TAPPEI： At that time, I didn't know anything about tattoo, so what was that picture? I think I asked my parents. Later, in an outlaw book, I learned that there was a profession called a carver. Since I was convinced, I liked painting and thought it would be nice to continue drawing in the future, so I started thinking that I wanted to be a sculptor.

I've been fulfilling my dream since I was little.

TAPPEI： That's right. Now, I think that my grandfather was a physician and my parents were dentists, so I was interested in tattoos because I had been studying my body since I was little. Also, because it was a hard house, I think I was strongly attracted by the outlaw tattoos.

ー TAPPEI's style is completely different from the Japanese sculpture that was first shocked, the so-called Chinese lion peony and Hannya touch.

TAPPEI： I liked Japanese carving, and at first I saw various things, but when I was a high school student, I was a band or a skateboard. Under the influence of that culture. Even now, I think Japanese carving is of course cool, but it's too tattoo.

What is "tattoo" too much?

TAPPEI： I don't like things that are too beautiful. It can be understood that Japanese sculptures have been valued from overseas as a beauty of the whole body, and it's wonderful, but it's a tattoo that I like increases one by one. For example, it's close to the feeling of collecting figures. That's my style. The style is not only a humorous picture, but I've been drawing a lot so far. Because I was in the art college in Kobe.