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Dutch photographer Ronin de Goede recently released a new photographic diary entitled ASAKUSA that chronicles the work of Japanese master tattoo artist, Horikazu. Across 216 pages, de Goede captures black and white imagery of Horikazu and his clients who hire him for his full-body tattoo specialties. Candid pictures of intimate tattoo sessions are interspersed between street photography of Japanese festivals, raw depictions of various Yakuza gangs and abstract composites that evoke the gritty and banned world of tattoo in Japan. “Yakuza thrive on their image as honourable outlaws, perpetua...

Asakura: Following Japanese Tattoo Master Horikazu December 21, 2020 | in Photography "Asakusa" is Ronin de Goede's visual diary of the time he spent following Horikazu, the traditional Japanese tattoo master in Tokyo. "In 2011, Ronin knocked on the door of the renowned tattooist Horikazu shodai. Hoping to meet the great man himself, he was dismayed to hear from Horikazu’s wife that he was terminally ill and couldn’t receive visitors. A shout stalled his dejected trudge away from the house: Horikazu’s wife had called her son, who had already despatched a black Mercedes Jeep that arrived...