The Tattooer - 刺青 [Shisei]

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Jiahu Books

2015

116 páginas

3h 52m

ISBN-13: 9781784351267

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.