Ai no hana: Tattoo Fantasy

Ozuma Kaname
Tokyo: Futami, 2003.
First Edition.

28.5cm x 22cm. [146] pages, colour illustrations. Decorative Japanese papered boards, illustrated slipcase, publisher’s slipcase, original shipping box. Preface and captions are bilingual, English and Japanese, primarily illustrations.

Monograph of Japanese painter and tattoo artist Ozuma Kaname (1939-2011). He worked in the traditional Japanese silk painting style. This book features his tattoo design work, featuring paintings of tattooed women and mythological creates, though tattoo was only a fraction of his oeuvre.

. Fine Condition.

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