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Longfellow's Tattoos.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Date: 20050201
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Longfellow's Tattoos

Christine M.E. Guth

University of Washington Press

PO Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145

0295984562 $29.95 www.amazon.com

Charles Longfellow was the son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Charles visited Japan in the 1870s intending a brief visit, and stayed for two years, returning to Boston with photos and elaborate tattoos he had 'collected' on his body. But Christine M.E. Guth's Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, And Japan is not so much a survey of collectible items nor even tattoo history, as a cultural expose of Japan in the 19th ...

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