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| The Japanese Tattoo | 
 enlarge | Creators: Sandi Fellman, D. M. Thomas
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Category: Book
List Price: $27.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 31366
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 9.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 0896597989
Dewey Decimal Number: 391.650952
UPC: 735738079898
EAN: 9780896597983
ASIN: 0896597989
Publication Date: February 1988
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| Customer Reviews:
 An amazing look into the secretive world of Japanese tattoo. April 13, 1999
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is an amazing book for the avid tattoo enthusiast. Anyone who knows about the art of traditional Japanese style tattooing will find this book a treasure. The book focuses on photography with a small intoduction and background on the art. I promise you will not find a greater photographic reference of the traditional Japanese tattoo.
A spectacular book - beautiful, fascinating and stimulating. March 25, 1997
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book is a treasure. Beautiful photographs truly illuminate the tremendous beauty and technical mastery inherent in the tattoo art of Horikin (Mitsuaki Ohwada). As a tattooist myself, this book is a benchmark; a standard to emulate
Worth Every Penny and More May 12, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Not only is this fine book a landmark in terms of photographic technique, it documents classic Japanese tattoo imagery, much as it has been for centuries. With less contrast and perhaps darker pigments than we are now used to in the West, this is traditional Japanese tattooing at its best. The themes in the symbolism are timeless and the close-up views of the tattoos are so detailed you feel like you could actually reach out and touch the skin. Absolutely fabulous and one of my favorite tattoo books.
 Terrible writing and poor picture quality April 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
On the good side, Amazon service was just as great as ever in delivering this book.
On the bad side (and there are several) this book had a cheap feel about it just from opening the packaging. Reading the preface / introduction I was stunned by the insulting gibberish by D.M. Thomas as to the Japanese tattoo culture. Looking at the back cover of the book you also see the photographer holding the heads of her subjects which also feels demeaning to the Japanese men portrayed in the picture: Japanese are not very touchy and touching ones head is generally not a good thing in most Asian cultures: the impression is of a woman and her two dogs. Not nice.
Later in the book you find the photographs blurry and the picture text very poor: you could have filled these huge pages with a lot of informative and captivating text about Japanese tattoo and culture. Instead you get to read what is pretty much: "this man has a fish tattoo".
The Japanese Tattoo October 1, 2005
This is a visually stimulating book - for both the casual observer, who will probably be horrified at some of the work, and for the Tattoo Collector - who will be inspired to new heights by the glorious array of Classical Japanese Artworks presented herein. Printed on heavy stock with beautiful color separation, this is truly an important reference of the Japanese repertoire.
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