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In the Ryukyu kingdom, women would get hand tattoos to mark rites of passage from childhood to womanhood, as indicators from where they are from and social status. Hajichi started to fade with the colonization and suppression of Ryukuyuan identity. Now it is starting to come back in a modern way, a reclaiming of identity for some Okinawans and the diaspora.
Hajichi
In the Ryukyu kingdom, women would get hand tattoos to mark rites of passage from childhood to womanhood, as indicators from where they are from and social status. Hajichi started to fade with the colonization and suppression of Ryukuyuan identity. Now it is starting to come back in a modern way, a reclaiming of identity for some Okinawans and the diaspora.
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