Black carp

A dark carp diving through water weed, every scale picked out. In irezumi the carp stands for perseverance and luck. Long and diagonal, it suits a forearm or calf at 15 to 20 cm.

Keisai Eisen, Koi, ca. 1842. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1917. Public domain.

Public domain. Any artist can tattoo it; ask them to draw it their way.