Ma explains that the Japanese had issued orders forbidding the practice of Atayal tattooing in the 1910s, but it was only around 1936 that a complete repression of all Atayal tattooing was effected.
他指出，日本人在一九一○年代初發佈禁止文面令，但完全禁絕泰雅族文面，卻在一九三六年左右。