Tattoos in Japanese Prints Magnet Set/3

About This Item

Tattooing became an important feature of Japanese urban popular culture in the early nineteenth century, influenced strongly by the success of a series of woodblock prints featuring Chinese martial arts heroes with spectacular tattoos, vividly imagined by the artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Tattoo artists copied designs from the prints and invented new designs that were, in turn, depicted in later prints. Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints explores the social background, iconography, and visual splendor of mid-nineteenth-century Japanese tattoos, an art that flourished in the last days of the rule of the samurai and that has continued into modern times.

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Set of 3 magnets.
Each magnet is 2" x 3".