Japanese Tattoo Designs
Koi, dragons, masks and the water and cloudwork that carries them. Sixteen drawings and eight of them on skin, all in black and grey.
Every tattoo image on this site is a generated illustration. None of it is work by this artist and none of it records a client result.
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Cherry blossom branch
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Chrysanthemum
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Guardian lion
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Horned mask
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Koi, upstream
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Tiger and bamboo
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Phoenix
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Peony
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Crane
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Snake
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Koi pair
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Koi, on a forearm
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Dragon, on an upper arm
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Great wave, on a calf
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Blossom, on a shoulder blade
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Tiger, on a thigh
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Peony, on an upper arm
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Crane, on a forearm
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Mask, on a calf
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Worth knowing before you choose
Japanese work is built to be read at size. The clouds, the water and the wind bars are not decoration placed around the subject, they are what holds the whole thing together, and a koi or a dragon lifted out of that background and shrunk to the size of a coin loses the part that made it work. Most of these want a forearm, a calf or more. The other honest point is colour. Traditional Japanese tattooing usually carries a great deal of it, and every drawing here is black and grey. That is its own look, and it is worth saying at the enquiry if you want the colour version, because it changes the drawing and not only the ink.
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More design ideas
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- Dragon Tattoo Designs 24 designs
- Snake Tattoo Designs 24 designs
- Phoenix Tattoo Designs 24 designs
Or describe what you actually want
None of these has to be it. Say what is closest, what you would change, where it goes and roughly how big, and the drawing comes back before anything is booked.