The Tiger of Ryogoku

A huge spotted head, from a print of a leopard shown at Ryogoku in Edo in 1860 and sold as a tiger. All teeth and eyes. Shoulder, thigh or upper arm, 13 to 16 cm.

Utagawa Hirokage, “The Tiger of Ryōkoku,” from the series True Scenes by Hirokage, 8th month, 1860. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005. Public domain.

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