The Japanese Tattoo

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 20 x 24 inch Polaroid photographs.

Publisher: Abbeville Press, New York
Date Published: 1986 (1st Ed.)
Book Condition: Very good softcover with minor surface, corner bumping and edge wear to covers and minor creasing to centre of back cover. Otherwise, an unmaked copy internally.