The Japanese tattoo
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The Japanese tattoo
Abbeville Press, c1986
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Description
A crimson fish wrestles a man. A horned demon stares menacingly. These vivid scenes are tattoos, created in pain, incised in the flesh of the Yakuza, Japan's feared secret society of gangsters. They are the visions of the Irezumi, the legendary tattoo artists, who spend years creating living masterpieces. Photographer Sandi Fellman describes this strange and violent world both in her text and in her stunning, large Polaroid photographs.
Table of Contents
8 Introduction by D. M. Thomas 12 Spirituality and the Flesh: The Japanese Tattoo 19 The Plates 110 Acknowledgements 110 A Note about the Camera 112 List of Plates
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