Crane and surf

A red-crowned crane standing above a breaking wave. Cranes are a sign of long life and good fortune in Japan. Tall and slim, it fits a forearm or the outside of a calf at 15 to 18 cm.

Utagawa Hiroshige, Crane and Surf, ca. 1833. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918. Public domain.

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