The Japanese Tattoo by Sandi Fellman is a photo book published by Abbeville Press, 1986
Softcover, 112pg. color
10" x 12"
1st edition
"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."