The Tattooer

The Tattooer is the first publish work by Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the major authors in the modern Japanese tradition. In the story, a tattoo artist inscribes a giant spider on the body of a beautiful young woman. Afterwards, the woman's beauty takes on a demonic, compelling power, in which eroticism is combined with sado-masochism. The story foreshadows many of the archetypes which reappear in many of Tanizaki's later works.

• | Author: Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
• | Publisher: Jiahu Books
• | Publication Date: Feb 14, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 116 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1784351261
• | ISBN-13: 9781784351267