Research Catalog

Title

Tattoos of the floating world : Ukiyo-e motifs in the Japanese tattoo / Takahiro Kitamura.

Author

Kitamura, Takahiro

Publication

• Leiden : Hotei Publishing, [2003]
• ©2003

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kitamura, Katie M.
• Hardy, Don Ed

Description

150 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

This unique book by tattoo artist Takahiro Kitamura (Horitaka, a pupil of Horiyoshi III) discusses the art of the Japanese tattoo in the context of Ukiyo-e, concentrating on the parallel histories of the woodblock print and the tattoo. Through high quality illustrations it shows that the Japanese tattoo is highly reliant on and linked to the woodblock print and that it deserves a position among the other art forms. A range of typical ukiyo-e motifs in the Japanese tattoo are discussed and illustrated by the original Japanese prints, and sketches, drawings and tattoos by tattoo master Horiyoshi III. The book ends with a special essay by Don Ed Hardy.

Alternative Title

Ukiyo-e motifs in the Japanese tattoo

Subject

• 1600-1868
• Tattooing > Japan
• Ukiyoe
• Color prints, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868
• Tattooing in art
• Ukiyo-e
• Tattooing in art
• Color prints, Japanese > Edo period
• Tattooing
• Ukiyoe
• Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-115).

Contents

Foreword / Donald Richie -- 1. A brief history of Japanese tattooing -- 2. The popular arts of ukiyo-e and irezumi -- 3. Triumvirate in arts -- 4. The artist's circle -- 5. The tattoo as higher art -- 6. Separate ways -- 7. Ukiyo-e motifs in the Japanese tattoo -- 8. The Japanese tattoo: a personal view / Don Ed Hardy -- Short Biographies. Horiyoshi III ; Don Ed Hardy.

ISBN

• 9074822452
• 9789074822459

LCCN

2003537811

OCLC

• ocm53186911
• 53186911
• SCSB-1296548

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library