TATTOO DESIGNS OF JAPAN HORIYOSHI III

This book is a collection of classic Japanese tattoo imagery, as perfected by master artist, Horiyoshi III (Yoshihito Nakano). Nakano's passion for the great artists of the ukiyoe (pictures of the floating world) tradition has led him on a continuous quest for source images from the great history of his country's art and from them, his own inspired flights of fancy. In this he continues the grand pattern of Japanese design, distilling, reworking, and giving new life to ancient powerful forms. -