Artisan is the thirteenth studio album recorded by the Japanese singer-songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita.

Also in the same year, Yamashita contributed a song "Without You" for Debbie Gibson, which was issued as a Japan-only single and the bonus disc for Japanese edition of her third album Anything is Possible.

Fifth track of the album is a cover version of "New York is a Lonely Town", a song written by Anders/Poncia and recorded by their group The Trade Winds.

Aside from "Mighty Smile", the couple wrote three songs together for Masayuki Suzuki's second solo album Radio Days in 1988.

[3] The closing track of Artisan is a cover version of The Young Rascals' 1967 U.S. number-one hit.