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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:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 27688
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: Read 14 more reviews...
 Terrible writing and poor picture quality April 30, 2008
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".
nice images April 17, 2008
The book is nice but some of the photos are not that great in quality. Has some nice designs, but I have to say I expected a little more of this book. Would probably buy again though.
 Great Art, but subpar writting January 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is worth the price for the pictures alone. Which is good because the writing is extremely sub par, with misinformation and just wrong information. The art is wonderful but the writing is so bad that you are probably better of not even reading it.
AMAZING GIFT FOR THE TATTOO ENTHUSIAST January 12, 2008
I purchased this book for my boyfriend for christmas who happens to be an avid japanese tattoo lover. He himself has full sleeves and leg work done all in the same traditional style this book offers the reader. The pictures are beautifully done and the commentary is very intresting. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves japanese culture or body art!
The Japanese Tattoo November 14, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If your into japanese tattoo's this is the book to get! The ink is bad a$$ with great pictures!
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