SHADY LADY TATTOO PARLOUR

Mariko (she/they) is a queer, mixed race, second-generation diasporic Indigenous Ryukyuan/Okinawan American who is currently reclaiming the practice of Hajichi, the Indigenous handpoke tradition of her people. 

 

She has been practicing handpoke since January 2024 and is apprenticing under Meredith Muse to learn more technical aspects of machine, the ways in which others practice tattoo as ritual, and learn more formally about working in a tattoo shop setting. 

 

Mariko is an interspiritual lover and defender of the Earth, practitioner of magic and wild prayer, advocate for Indigenous rights, ancestor worshiper, and animist. 

 

@ugamisabira on Instagram or marikomiddleton.com