The Kimono Tattoo

Author : Rebecca Copeland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734495057

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The Kimono Tattoo by Rebecca Copeland Pdf

"I jostled her shoulder and noticed when I did that her skin was cold to the touch....her entire torso was covered in tattoos from her collar bone to the midline of her thighs. All were of kimono motifs-fans, incense burners, peonies, and scrolls." This ghastly scene was the last thing Ruth Bennett expected to encounter when she agreed to translate a novel by a long-forgotten Japanese writer. Returning to her childhood home in Kyoto had promised safety, solitude, and diversion from the wounds she encountered in the U.S. But Ruth soon finds the storyline in the novel leaking into her everyday life. Fictional characters turn out to be real, and the past catches up with the present in an increasingly threatening way. As Ruth struggles to unravel the cryptic message hidden in the kimono tattoo, she is forced to confront a vicious killer along with her own painful family secrets.

Author : Brian Ashcraft,Hori Benny
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781462918591

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Japanese Tattoos by Brian Ashcraft,Hori Benny Pdf

Thinking of getting a Japanese-style tattoo? Want to avoid a permanent mistake? Japanese Tattoos is an insider's look at the world of Japanese irezumi (tattoos). Japanese Tattoos explains the imagery featured in Japanese tattoos so that readers can avoid getting ink they don't understand or, worse, that they'll regret. This photo-heavy book will also trace the history of Japanese tattooing, putting the iconography and kanji symbols in their proper context so readers will be better informed as to what they mean and have a deeper understanding of irezumi. Tattoos featured will range from traditional tebori (hand-poked) and kanji tattoos to anime-inspired and modern works—as well as everything in between. For the first time, Japanese tattooing will be put together in a visually attractive, informative, and authoritative way. Along with the 350+ photos of tattoos, Japanese Tattoos will also feature interviews with Japanese tattoo artists on a variety of topics. What's more, there will be interviews with clients, who are typically overlooked in similar books, allowing them to discuss what their Japanese tattoos mean to them. Those who read this informative tattoo guide will be more knowledgeable about Japanese tattoos should they want to get inked or if they are simply interested in Japanese art and culture.

Author : Akimitsu Takagi
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569471562

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The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi Pdf

Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that bore one of the most beautiful full-body tattoos ever rendered. Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor who was first to discover the crime scene, feels compelled to assist his detective brother, who is in charge of the case. But Kenzo has a secret: he was Kinue’s lover, and soon his involvement in the investigation becomes as twisted and complex as the writhing snakes that once adorned Kinue’s torso. The Tattoo Murder Case was originally published in 1948; this is the first English translation.

Author : Rebecca Copeland,Linda C. Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611720664

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Yamamba by Rebecca Copeland,Linda C. Ehrlich Pdf

Women, Magic, Wisdom: Explore a Japanese myth through the words and images of key scholars and artists.

Author : Donald Richie,Ian Buruma
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Tattoo artists
ISBN : UCSC:32106016854785

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The Japanese Tattoo by Donald Richie,Ian Buruma Pdf

This text offers a treatment of the history, symbolism, and social function of tattooing in Japan, from its earliest beginnings to the present day.

Author : Ming-Ju Sun
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486462233

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Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book by Ming-Ju Sun Pdf

Japanese kimonos are wearable art. Celebrating the patterns and motifs adorning the traditional costumes, 30 ready-to-color illustrations present kimono-clad figures awash in pastoral scenes and wandering abstracts.

Author : Martha Cooper
Publisher : Dokument Forlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Tattooing
ISBN : 9185639273

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Tokyo Tattoo 1970 by Martha Cooper Pdf

In 1970, as a young photographer, Martha Cooper moved from the USA to Tokyo and became fascinated with Irezumi, the art of Japanese tattooing. Searching for an artist, she found Horibun I, a respected master working in the traditional Okachimachi District of Tokyo. Forbidden in Japan for nearly 80 years, Irezumi in 1970 was an art form strictly for those in the know. For some months Horibun I allowed Cooper to follow and photograph him working. The photos, untouched for 40 years, have finally found their way into a book that tells both the story of Irezumi in 1970, and of Martha Cooper's first adventure into a subculture--Publisher's description.

Author : Chris McKinney
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569474501

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The Tattoo by Chris McKinney Pdf

“A book about ‘the sins of the fathers.’ . . . A gritty, troubling book.”—The Honolulu Advertiser “The other Hawai’i, the one tourists never get to see.”—Ian MacMillan Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough looking, a hard case, observes his cellmate Cal—the mute tattoo artist of the prison, a wife murderer. SYN, a gang symbol, is tattooed on his hand, and he has a Japanese emblem inscribed on his left shoulder. He asks Cal for a tattoo on his back, in kanji script, of Musashi’s Book of the Void. While he is being worked on, he tells Cal his life story, a tale of hardship and abuse. Motherless, he was raised by a distant father, a Vietnam War veteran, in the impoverished hinterlands. In his teen years he hung out with the native Hawaiian gangs and was drawn into the Hawaiian-Korean underworld of strip bars and massage parlors. His ambition and proud samurai spirit seem, inevitably, to lead to his downfall. Chris McKinney is of Korean, Japanese, and Scottish descent. He was born in Honolulu and grew up in Kahaluu. He portrays the native Hawaiian experience from the inside, where children of mixed ethnicity grow up far from the clear water and pristine beaches of the rich visitors’ resorts.

Author : Mike Dorsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 889784524X

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Japan Reimagined. Modern Curiosities and Untold Stories. Ediz. Illustrata by Mike Dorsey Pdf

Author : Christine Guth
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295984015

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Longfellow's Tattoos by Christine Guth Pdf

Charles Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, arrived in Yokohama in 1871, intending a brief visit, and stayed for two years. He returned to Boston laden with photographs, curios, and art objects, as well as the elaborate tattoos he had "collected" on his body. His journals, correspondence, and art collection dramatically demonstrate America’s early impressions of Japanese culture, and his personal odyssey illustrates the impact on both countries of globetrotting tourism. Interweaving Longfellow’s experiences with broader issues of tourism and cultural authenticity, Christine Guth discusses the ideology of tourism and the place of Japan within nineteenth-century round-the-world travel. This study goes beyond simplistic models of reciprocal influence and authenticity to a more synergistic account of cross-cultural dynamics.

Author : Laura Miller,Rebecca Copeland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520969971

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Diva Nation by Laura Miller,Rebecca Copeland Pdf

Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates from curiosity over the insistent presence of Japanese female figures who have refused to sit quietly on the sidelines of history. The contributors move beyond archival portraits to consider historically and culturally informed diva imagery and diva lore. The diva is ripe for expansion, fantasy, eroticization, and playful reinvention, while simultaneously presenting a challenge to patriarchal culture. Diva Nation asks how the diva disrupts or bolsters ideas about nationhood, morality, and aesthetics.

Author : Rebecca L. Copeland
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824829581

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Woman Critiqued by Rebecca L. Copeland Pdf

'Women Critiqued' offers English-language readers access to some of the salient critiques that have been directed at women writers, on the one hand, and reactions to these by women writers, on the other.

Author : Rebecca L. Copeland,Uno Chiyo
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0824814096

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The Sound of the Wind by Rebecca L. Copeland,Uno Chiyo Pdf

Fashion ingenue, magazine editor, kimono designer, femme fatale, prize-winning writer--Uno Chiyo has becomeone of twentieth-century Japan's most accomplished and celebrated women. In this two-part volume, Rebecca L. Copeland offers Western readers a fascinating portrait of Uno's life along with translations of three of her distinctive works of short fiction. Part One depicts Uno's sometimes turbulent passage from obscurity in a small village to national literary prominence. There are the early years under her father's stern turelage; the first scandalous, failed romance which cost her her job as a schoolteacher; her apprenticeship at Enrakuken, the coffee shop of the literary elite whose ranks she laters joined as a resident of the "Magome Literati Village"; her series of passionate and troubled relationships and marriages. Throughout, Dr. Copeland focuses on the evolution of Uno's art and discusses her major works, paying special attention to the effect being female had on Uno's development as a writer. The three stories in Part Two are examples of Uno's work at its finest. "The Puppet Maker" (1942), a much-admired reflection on art and life, describes an encounter with a venerable carver of puppets. "The Sound of the Wind" (1969) is the tale of a wife at the turn of the century who willingly denies her own needs. "This Powder Box" (1966) shows a progressive career woman coming to terms with an old love affair. At once compelling and lyrical, the stories are a masterful interpretation of tradition, of women, and of self-fulfullment. The Sound of the Wind: The Life and Works of Uno Chiyo will engage both specialists and general readers interested in twentieth-century Japan, literature, and women's issues.

Author : John Reeve
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674023919

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Japanese Art in Detail by John Reeve Pdf

What is Japanese art? This book supplies an answer that gives a reader both a true picture and a fine understanding of Japanese art. Arranged thematically, the book includes chapters on nature and pleasure, landscape and beauty, all framed by themes of serenity and turmoil, the two poles of Japanese culture ancient and modern.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pie Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 4756250181

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着物と日本の色 by Anonim Pdf

This distinctive volume reveals a unique antique kimono collection through various delicate Japanese colors and their use in kimono. The Japanese sensibility is immediately apparent in the classification of the nine traditional color categories of red, green, pink, blue, brown, purple, yellow, black/white, and gold/silver. Each spread in Kimono and the Colors of Japan presents a single color showing a page-wide photo of a kimono accompanied by a description of the color and its meaning in the context of Japanese culture. The author explains, "We organized the kimono and obi (sash) according to what I like to call 'Japanese Kokoro no Iro', colors of the Japanese heart. Each category presents what individual colors express or signify. For example, we use white, black and gold as an expression of cheer. Red indicates the sun, blood, and fire. White, black, and silver express sadness." With the knowledge of both Western and traditional Japanese fashion cultures, Yumioka presents and describes his collection in an easily accessible style.