The Japanese Tattoo

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. A horned demon stares menacingly. Photographer Sandi Fellman describes this strange and violent world both in her text and in her stunning, large Polaroid photographs.. A crimson fish wrestles a man

The 46 color plates in this volume, most of them whole body nudes, should prove provocative, fascinating, or repellant to a wide variety of library patrons. Her text touches on the tattooing process, common motifs, the sociology of the tattoo, and relationships between the tattoo masters and their clients. Finkelstein, M.L.S., CincinnatiCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Fellman treats the tattoos as artworks and their creators as artists. Author D.M. . Kathryn W. Thomas has contributed two pages of his reactions to these unusual and even disturbing images. From Library Journal American photographer Sandi Fellman used a rare large size Polaroid camera to create these photos of Irezumi Japanese men and women who wear elaborate full-body tattoos

Misinformed, horrible quality, grossly padded. This book is laughably bad. Firstly, trust me on the reviews about the quality of the photos. It looks like the book is filled with images from Google blown up to way beyond their resolution capabilities. They are fuzzy and unclear. Furthermore you'll have these giant pages just of a single photo (in horrible quality) and on the other side a stark wh. Great research! p christopher lurie I own a tattoo studio, and I've used this book countless times to explain elements of Japanese tattoos to my clients. I can't tell how many times I've said "wind barslike these in this picture" or "these are peony flowers and these are lotus" or "look at this little hairy penis". The photos are large and varied. And while they aren't frame worthy, th. Keith Fung said Great Photos, Weak Text. If you have no experience with horimono, this book gives some excellent images focusing mostly on the works of three masters (only one, Horiyoshi III Sensei of Yokohama still actively tattoos). The book is worth buying for the images alone.And I wish it were the images alone. The captions are often naive, bordering at times on offensive. The author a