Tattoos featured will range from traditional tebori (hand-poked) and kanji tattoos to anime-inspired and modern works—as well as everything in between.

AUTHOR: Yori Moriarty took up tattooing in 2000 and, in 2005, began producing Japanese tattoos alongside American artist Jason Kundell. expos from Sydney to Sao Paolo and has exhibited in art shows both inside and outside of the tattoo art world. The book is packed with information and reading material on the meaningsand representation of Japanese tattoos.This book by Brian Ashcraft will be one of your guides to make sure that you completely understand some of the most famous Japanese tattoos and know what it means before you start putting ink on your body. He covers the history of tattoo in Japan-still frowned on and banned in some ways, yet it has a long history. This book is definitely one of the best Japanese tattoo books and you can even use it to learn and acquire some new skills for your tattoo business. Tattoos featured will range from traditional tebori (hand-poked) and kanji tattoos to anime-inspired and modern works--as well as everything in between.

Ashcraft was previously a contributing editor at Wired magazine; his work has also appeared in Popular Science, the Guardian, the Japan Times, and the design journal Metropolis, as well as numerous other publications worldwide.

Numerous examples of these fabrics, photographed in exquisite detail, offer insight into Japan's complex textile history as well as inspiration for today's designers and artists. Electric tattooing as we know it today was invented in New York City at the turn of the 19th century. These vivid scenes are tattoos, created in pain, incised in the flesh of the Yakuza, Japan’s feared secret society of gangsters. Her TASCHEN publications include TATTOO 1730s-1950s , Kay Nielsen's A Thousand and One Nights and East of the Sun and West of . In the first days of American tattooing, tattoos were primarily worn by sailors and soldiers, outlaws and outsiders.