Tā moko

Tauranga Moana is hosting a 'must not miss' festival celebrating traditional body marking from around the world in Mount Maunganui this weekend.

From the Paiwan tribe in Taiwan, artist Cudjuy Patjidres is revitalizing his culture through traditional means of tattooing.

For hundreds of year’s tattoos in Japan have been associated with gansters, the Yakuza. Despite the prevalence of tattoos in modern culture the stigma appears to still exist.

They see moko as a powerful point of connection that brings people together in support of Māori art, Māori culture.