These vivid scenes are tattoos, created in pain, incised in the flesh of
the Yakuza, Japan's feared secret society of gangsters. They are the
visions of the Irezumi, the legendary tattoo artists, who spend years
creating living masterpieces. Photographer Sandi Fellman describes this
strange and violent world both in her text and in her stunning, large 20
x 24 inch Polaroid photographs.