ASAKUSA

Ronin de Goede
ASAKUSA
Photographs: Ronin De Goede
Text: Mark Poysden
Publisher: zen Foto Gallery
216 pages
Pictures: 154
Year: 2020
Comments: Illustrated hardcover under slipcase, 26,7 x 19,5 cm, b&w photographs, text in Japanese and English.
“Asakusa” by Dutch photographer Ronin de Goede is a photographic diary of the days he spent photographing the work of Japanese master tattoo artist Horikazu and the clients who hire him. As Japan has historically been and continues to be a country where tattoos remain closely associated with the criminal underworld, following Horikazu’s work – his specialty being the full-body tattoo – slowly allowed de Goede entry to the world of the yakuza…
“Yakuza thrive on their image as honourable outlaws, perpetuated in Japanese novels, magazines, plays, films and manga. But nothing could be further from the truth – while they may make very public displays of their rare acts of public generosity, ultimately their power is based on fear. Like criminal syndicates around the world, in Japan the yakuza run protection rackets and drugs, they trade in human flesh, they extort, bribe, bully, maim and kill, and because of their nationalist, usually right-wing ethos, became enmeshed with the government due to their long and complicated history serving as the government’s enforcers, most prominently after the Second World War (…)” (from Mark Poysden’s afterword)





















more books tagged »tokyo« | >> see all
-
Vulnerability (signed Edt of 5 )
by Jean-Marc Caimi
sold -
TOKYO COMPRESSION THREE SIGNED
by Michael Wolf
sold -
SIX STRATA: ROPPONGI HILLS DEFINED (Signed)
by Takashi Homma
Euro 70 -
Rojin (SIGNED - ONLY 100 COPIES)
by Yuichi Hibi
Euro 75 -
Tokyo, in Autumn
by Nobuyoshi Araki
Euro 30 -
TOKYO UNTITLED (SIGNED)
by Renato D'Agostin
sold
more books tagged »yakuza« | >> see all
more books tagged »dutch « | >> see all
-
Why Mister why ? Iraq 2003-2004
by Geert van Kesteren
sold -
Thuis
by Andrea Stultiens
Euro 30 -
New Work
by Hellen van Meene
sold -
Heartbeat (SIGNED)
by Machiel Botman
Euro 90 -
East Wind West Wind
by Bertien van Manen
sold -
Faire face
by Koos Breukel
Euro 30
more books tagged »japan« | >> see all
-
Tokyo in Raiders' Ordeal
by Collective
sold -
CLUB & COURTS YOKOSUKA YOKOHAMA (SIGNED)
by Miyako Ishiuchi
sold -
Trilogy (with prints)
by Chloé Jafé
sold -
My Ektachrome (Signed)
by Koji Onaka
sold -
Girl
by Yoshihiro Tatsuki
sold -
Shakyo Rojin Nikki: Yoko no meinichi (SIGNED WITH OBI)
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold
more books tagged »Zen foto« | >> see all
-
Tokyo Superdeep Borehole
by Eric
Euro 40 -
Good Luck Hong Kong (Signed)
by Eric
sold -
Tele-vision
by Noboru Taguchi
Euro 25 -
TIBET (SIGNED)
by Shinya Arimoto
Euro 60 -
Selfpolaroids (SIGNED)
by Tokyo Rumando
sold -
Yang-Taro Baka-Taro
by Seung-woo Yang
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com