A Japanese crime novel for the summer? Written by one of the great masters of 20th century Japanese crime fiction, and originally published in 1948, 'Irezumi' takes the reader to the city of Tokyo, devastated by the American bombings of 1945, in which the murders of tattooed people are multiplying. For whose benefit? The plot, perfectly documented, plunges the reader into the world of tattooing at the time, with masters, cursed motifs, femme fatales and even a collector of tattooed skin. The author - who is also a photographer, as we discovered this year in the book 'the tattoo writer' - is passionate about tattooing and finds here an unprecedented balance between the genres. The book will be published in English in the autumn. 'Irezumi' by Akimitsu Takagi - Folio - 7€99
