Tag: Irezumi

Recollection

Recollection

When staying at Shunko-in, a subtemple at the large Myoshin-ji Rinzai Zen temple complex in Kyoto, we attended several zazen (seated meditation) sessions led by …

 

Luckiness

Luckiness

My old camera, a Nikon D200, getting blessed by the priest at the buddhist Fudo Myoo temple in Yokohama. September 2009.

 

Kyoto Urban Landscape

Kyoto Urban Landscape

Early morning view from the place outside the gates of the Myoshinji Zen temple complex where I used to have my morning cigarette. Me and …

 

Returning

Returning

After quite some time I finally have time to return to this blog. Work on the first book to published by our (Alex Reinke and …

 

yokohama salary man

yokohama salary man

While photographing for a book on irezumi master Horiyoshi III of Yokohama last summer,  I captured this on the way to the yodobashi camera store.  …

 

The photography of Paul Hansen.

The photography of Paul Hansen.

More often than ever nowadays, it’s clear to me that Irezumi, writing and photography are not separate from one and other. After all, they’re all …

 

Zen life, Ueno park, Tokyo. Perhaps a chance meeting with the ghost of Yamaoka Tesshu…. Warm and sticky darkness chases the moon up high. A man plays …

 

September. Early evening at Nakamura-sans studio/house outside Fukuoka. It’s not yet even an hour since we arrived by train from Yokohama. Kazuyoshi, Horikitsune, Horikazu and …

 

At the studio of Nakamura San, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.

 

Horikitsune brandishing his Irezumi as well as his photographic skills at Horiyoshi III’s studio august last year.