A thin black branch with pink cherry blossoms tattooed diagonally across the outer thigh, in a botanical style.

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Cherry blossom branch on a thigh

Botanical · Thigh · Mixed · Photo

A slender branch with small pink blossoms curves diagonally across the upper thigh. The thin black twigs are fine and branching, and the blossoms are small pink shapes with soft shading. The close crop shows the thigh against dark shorts and green outdoor foliage.

Botanical Fine line Thigh Cherry blossom Branch Blossom Flower

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Nell, the cook's boy has been useless all week, so I have taken over the galley stores, and behind the flour sacks I found a crate of cherry wood that was meant for a merchant in Yokohama who never came back for it. The captain says it goes ashore at Gravesend or over the side. Until then I have been cutting it with the bread knife after the evening meal.

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The branch is no thicker than a pencil at its tip and dark as tar where the bark has dried, but someone packed it in damp sacking and it has kept its buds. Every morning there are a few more pink mouths opening along the twigs, five petals apiece, and the lads who sweep the foredeck keep stopping to look at them as if they have never seen a tree before. Maybe they haven't. Most of them were raised in Limehouse.

Mr Ashby, the bosun, caught me with it in a jam jar on the chopping board and said nothing at all. The next day there was a little shelf nailed above the stove, no bigger than a cigar box lid, with a brass hook screwed into the end. He never mentioned it and neither did I. The branch hangs there now, swaying when we roll, and the blossoms shake loose a little in the heat of the galley.

Tell Mum we should make port before the last of them go. I have pressed one petal flat between the pages of this letter, so look for it when you open the envelope, and if it has gone brown by the time it reaches you, then it has done its job.