Body suit (tattoo)

[3] However, tattooing was made illegal near the end of the Edo period, in an effort by the Japanese government to protect its image abroad.

[4] Such body suits were performed using tebori, a traditional Japanese style that involves tattooing by hand, without the use of any machines.

[3] It was one of the early things developed by the Pre-Austronesians in Taiwan and coastal South China prior to at least 1500 BCE, before the Austronesian expansion into the islands of the Indo-Pacific.

It has also been stated that the body suit originated in Japan around 1700 CE, as a means for working middle-class people to display their wealth and status.

[5] Laws were in place that only allowed nobility to dress in fancy clothing, so some in the middle class chose tattoos as a means to adorn their bodies.