The latest featured exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco revisits 19th century Japan to explore how large-scale and densely composed tattoos that are fairly popular today first emerged in tandem with woodblock prints depicting tattooed heroes of history and myth.
The exhibition, titled “Tattoos in Japanese Prints,” was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston with support of Lucy Sun, Warren Felson and the Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation and will be available at the Asian Art Museum through Aug. 18.
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