The Great Wave

Hokusai's great wave curling over three boats, one of the best known images in Japanese art. Waves tie a Japanese sleeve or back together. On its own, 15 cm and up on a forearm or calf.

Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), ca. 1830-32. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1914. Public domain.

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