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The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boliver Boehm (1997, Hardcover) 
The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boliver Boehm (1997, Hardcover)

 
The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boliver Boehm (1997, Hardcover)

Author: Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boliver Boehm
Publisher: Soho Pr Inc
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1569471088
ISBN-13: 9781569471081
Product ID: EPID662607
Description: In postwar Japan, tattoo artist Horiyasu has marked each of his three children with a mystical totem. Soon, each of the children is stalked by danger, and daughter Kinue is brutally murdered.
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Synopsis
In postwar Japan, tattoo artist Horiyasu has marked each of his three children with a mystical totem. Soon, each of the children is stalked by danger, and daughter Kinue is brutally murdered.

Details
Publication Date:1997-12-01

Size
Length:324 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:24.0 oz

Publisher's Note
To be tattooed in Japan was once a punishment intended to brand criminals with an indelible mark of shame, setting them apart from the rest of society. Instead, they made it their badge of defiance. It was a test of will and strength to be tattooed, and an act of daring because the practice of this art was actually made illegal. Although it became acceptable for physical laborers and firemen to have large tattoos (and they were even honored for them by being sought out as pallbearers and to shoulder other palanquins), such vain decoration was deemed unsavory, a gaudy self-aggrandizement favored by gangsters and geishas. But it was also felt to be mythic and sensuous and wonderfully illicit. A seam was left in the designs of many full-body tattoos so that they could be collected after death in one piece without disturbing the pattern, provided the owner was willing. The most famous collection is housed in Tokyo University. In 1947 - the year in which this mystery is set - the collection is being curated by a Professor Hayakawa, who, along with the younger brother of the city's chief-of-detectives, comes upon an unusual murder. The victim's own full-body tattoo has been stolen; the "canvas" mutilated.

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