| Subcategories |
 |
Health, Mind & Body |
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
The Japanese Tattoo
Studio : Abbeville Press
by Abbeville Press
Publisher : Abbeville Press
Released : 1988-02
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780896597983
UPC : 735738079898
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 23 reviews)
List Price : $27.50
Our Price : $17.20
|
|
| |
|
Excellent images |
|
This book has great images of some awesome Japanese style tattoos. As others have said, this book is great for the images alone. I would have given a 5 star rating if the author had done a better job writing. Overall this book provides what a person looking at this book would be interested in, masterfully done Japanese style body tattoos. |
| |
|
Informative, great series of pictures! |
|
This book is an in-depth look at traditional Japanese tattoos, complete with lots of full page photographs. The book discusses the techniques used to tattoo as well as the history of tattoos in Japan. |
| |
|
Japanese Tattoo |
|
Nice artwork. Large pictures, basically information of the tattoo designs, and their meanings. If your interested in Japanese artwork you will like this.. |
| |
|
Old, but great pictures |
|
Although the pictures are old, the tattoo-work is still astonishing. A great book for inspiration if you're like me, planning to tattoo a japanase motiv. |
| |
|
Terrible writing and poor picture quality |
On the good side, Americancivilwar 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".
|
| |
|
|
|
