いれずみ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
入れ墨 入墨 刺青 文身 黥 (rare)

Etymology

入(い)れ (ire, continuative form of 入(い)れる (ireru, “to put in”)) + 墨(すみ) (sumi, “ink”). The sumi changes to zumi as an instance of rendaku (連(れん)濁(だく)).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) いれずみ [ìrézúmí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [iɾe̞zɨmʲi]

Noun

いれずみ • (irezumi) 

1. a tattoo (an image made in the skin with ink and a needle)

   いれずみをする

   irezumi o suru

   to tattoo

2. a punishment in which criminals were given a tattoo as a mark of their criminal record

Derived terms

• 入(い)れ墨(ずみ)者(もの) (irezumimono)

See also

• 墨入(すみい)れ (sumiire)

Verb

いれずみする • (irezumi suru) suru (stem いれずみし (irezumi shi), past いれずみした (irezumi shita))

1. to tattoo
   • 1948, 野村胡堂, 銭形平次捕物控 怪盗系図‎^[1], 青空文庫:

     身体(からだ)は華奢(きゃしゃ)な方(ほう)ですが、二(に)の腕(うで)に賽(さい)の目(め)の三(さん)が入墨(いれずみ)してあるところを見(み)ると、間違(まちが)いなく斑組六人男(まだらぐみろくにんおとこ)の一人(ひとり)でなければなりません。

     Karada wa kyasha na hō desu ga, ni no ude ni sai no me no san ga irezumi shite aru tokoro o miru to, machigai naku Madara-gumi rokunin otoko no hitori de nakereba narimasen.

     He is of slender build, but considering the fact that he has a three face of a die tattooed on his upper arm, he must be, without a doubt, one of the six men of the Madara ring.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "いれずみする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	いれずみし	irezumi shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	いれずみし	irezumi shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	いれずみする	irezumi suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	いれずみする	irezumi suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	いれずみすれ	irezumi sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	いれずみせよ¹ いれずみしろ²	irezumi seyo¹ irezumi shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	いれずみされる	irezumi sareru
Causative	いれずみさせる いれずみさす	irezumi saseru irezumi sasu
Potential	いれずみできる	irezumi dekiru
Volitional	いれずみしよう	irezumi shiyō
Negative	いれずみしない	irezumi shinai
Negative continuative	いれずみせず	irezumi sezu
Formal	いれずみします	irezumi shimasu
Perfective	いれずみした	irezumi shita
Conjunctive	いれずみして	irezumi shite
Hypothetical conditional	いれずみすれば	irezumi sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative