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Toyotama-hime as a dragon

The sea princess Toyotama-hime in her true form as a dragon, from Hokusai's book of warriors. Scales and cloud in black ink. Thigh or back, 20 cm and up.

Katsushika Hokusai, Picture Book of Chinese and Japanese Warriors (Wakan ehon sakigake), 1836, first month (Tenpō 7). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013. Public domain.

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