Tonomura has a singular taste in women He likes them but he wants them tattooed To this end young Osayo has herself decorated with a celebrated flyingangel pattern and in this way brings much pleasure to her patron A young hoodlum named Shinnosuke also covets the tattooed maiden He decorated with the design of a famous thief finally gets to her and she responds as she rarely does with her older lover Also in love with her is a young girl named Okimi who has herself tattooed with a courtesan design just to please the older woman Having done so however she becomes fair prey to the tattooloving Tonomura who loses no time in seducing her