Red plum blossom

Red plum blossom on bare branches, the first flower of the Japanese year and a sign of hope through winter. Long and narrow, for a forearm or calf at 14 to 18 cm.

Utagawa Hiroshige, Flowering Plum Tree, ca. 1843-47. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936. Public domain.

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