num_pages: 120
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 20 x 24 inch Polaroid photographs.  
language: English
title: The Japanese Tattoo
titlecomplete: The Japanese Tattoo
genres: Nonfiction, Art, Japan, Japanese Literature
ratings_count: 145
publisher: Abbeville Press