HMS BACCHANTE 1881 VOL II ☛
Compiled from the private journals, letters and note-books of Prince George of Wales (George V)
OCTOBER 28 1881, Tokyo, Japan. Royal Archives © 2026

“Back to breakfast at 9.30 and then the tattooer finished our arms. He does a large dragon in blue and red writhing all down the arm in about three hours. The man who did most of our party was beautifully tattooed over the whole of his body, and the effect of these Japanese drawings in various colours and curves on his glistening skin was like so much embroidered silk”.