Not only did the Japanese disallow tattooing in Atayal villages, they did not permit tattooing tools to be kept, and in "savage-children education institutes," they taught the Atayal that "facial tattoos are a symbol of backwardness." They even threatened that if any student went off on their own and received facial tattoos, they would be forbidden from attending classes.
日本駐警不僅在泰雅族部落中取締文面，沒收文面工具，也在「番童教育所」灌輸泰雅族人「文面是落後象徵」，甚至以學生若是偷偷文面，便不准上學為威脅。