入いれ墨ずみ者もの

noun

tattooed criminal (Edo period)

Historical term for a person who received a punitive tattoo during the Edo period, marking them as a convicted criminal.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、入いれ墨ずみ者ものは前ぜん科か者しゃとして一いち目もくでわかるようにされていた。

  In the Edo period, tattooed criminals were made easily recognizable as ex-convicts.