The Japanese Tattoo: Fights and Fires are the Flowers of Edo, by Manami Okazaki.
I’m delighted to have these two images in a new book just released, ‘The Japanese Tattoo: Fights and Fires are the Flowers of Edo’, authored by journalist par excellence and friend in Japan, Manami Okazaki (you wanna know Japanese subcultures, drop her a note!), and published by Prestel Publishing.
Double Lucky/Unlucky
It sounds unlucky to survive one atomic bombing, but to survive two? Does that make you extremely unlucky to have been under the bombing twice, or extremely lucky to have survived on both occasions? Back in 2005 I was fortunate to work on an assignment in Japan, photographing three men who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings - an assignment I’ve never forgotten.