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 Polaroid photographs.
- ISBN10 0896597989
- ISBN13 9780896597983
- Publish Date 17 December 1987 (first published 1 February 1987)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 120
- Language English