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THE WORLD
A Tattoo Master's Eerie Fan
By MARK MAGNIER
TIMES STAFF WRITER
August 21 2002
TOKYO -- While the Japanese art of full-body tattooing has many foreign
fans, one of the most infamous must certainly be Charles Manson.
In a dusty glass case at the back of the Yokohama Tattoo Museum are page
after page of letters written by Manson to Horiyoshi III, the working
name of museum founder Yoshihito Nakano.
Manson was convicted in 1971 in the bloody Tate-LaBianca murders, a
notorious crime that left a jarring memory on a generation.
Nakano says Manson started writing to him as "a sort of pen pal" after
reading about his work in a tattoo magazine. Nakano says he never did
work on Manson.
Most of the letters are from Corcoran Prison in 1995 and were written on
colored paper featuring swastikas or eagle-and-swastika combinations.
Manson's prison number is listed as B33920.
The majority of the letters are filled with spelling and grammatical
errors. Words skip from lower case to upper case and back again, lines
tail off in different directions, and the sentiments expressed don't
follow conventional logic. Manson at one point writes that he feels a
link with the "100% Japan man."
On one three-page letter on white paper, with eagles and swastikas at the
top left and right, Manson writes: "Looking DEEP, LONG, now becomeing
wonder in the mind Now is when as its always been writen in the SUN.
Right ON. I been comeing HOLY WAR as Gods Marks say behold words. Nows
the 1940s Hall of prisons in the USA. When behind the judges chambers the
English words came that Japan was to be hung for crimes. Then Crime
became the war behind the merrows of minds in forever."
Nakano says he doesn't read English and never understood the letters.
A Tattoo Master's Eerie Fan
By MARK MAGNIER
TIMES STAFF WRITER
August 21 2002
TOKYO -- While the Japanese art of full-body tattooing has many foreign
fans, one of the most infamous must certainly be Charles Manson.
In a dusty glass case at the back of the Yokohama Tattoo Museum are page
after page of letters written by Manson to Horiyoshi III, the working
name of museum founder Yoshihito Nakano.
Manson was convicted in 1971 in the bloody Tate-LaBianca murders, a
notorious crime that left a jarring memory on a generation.
Nakano says Manson started writing to him as "a sort of pen pal" after
reading about his work in a tattoo magazine. Nakano says he never did
work on Manson.
Most of the letters are from Corcoran Prison in 1995 and were written on
colored paper featuring swastikas or eagle-and-swastika combinations.
Manson's prison number is listed as B33920.
The majority of the letters are filled with spelling and grammatical
errors. Words skip from lower case to upper case and back again, lines
tail off in different directions, and the sentiments expressed don't
follow conventional logic. Manson at one point writes that he feels a
link with the "100% Japan man."
On one three-page letter on white paper, with eagles and swastikas at the
top left and right, Manson writes: "Looking DEEP, LONG, now becomeing
wonder in the mind Now is when as its always been writen in the SUN.
Right ON. I been comeing HOLY WAR as Gods Marks say behold words. Nows
the 1940s Hall of prisons in the USA. When behind the judges chambers the
English words came that Japan was to be hung for crimes. Then Crime
became the war behind the merrows of minds in forever."
Nakano says he doesn't read English and never understood the letters.
"9/11, The Big Lie," the English translation of Meyssan's incendiary French-language book is due to hit U.S. bookstores by the end of this month. The book alleges that the world has been taken for a ride over what really happened on September 11.
The French have already lapped up Meyssan's theory that a military faction in the U.S. government used remote controls to guide two aircraft into the twin towers and that a U.S. missile -- not an American Airlines jet -- smashed into the Pentagon.
The French have already lapped up Meyssan's theory that a military faction in the U.S. government used remote controls to guide two aircraft into the twin towers and that a U.S. missile -- not an American Airlines jet -- smashed into the Pentagon.
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