Dagger and Snake Japanese Upper Arm — tattoo by Chip Douglas

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A black & grey japanese (irezumi) tattoo featuring a dagger & knife, placed on the upper arm. By Chip Douglas at Great Lakes Tattoo.

Key facts

• Tattoo by: Chip Douglas at Great Lakes Tattoo, Chicago, United States
• Style: Japanese (Irezumi) 100%
• Shows: Dagger & Knife 45% · Snake 30% · Other Weapons 25%
• Placement: Upper Arm
• Colour: Black & Grey
• Pain here: Mild, 2 of 5; healing: easy

Details

• Visibility here: easy to cover
• Tags (each opens similar tattoos): Japanese (Irezumi) · Dagger & Knife · Other Weapons · Snake · Upper Arm · Black & Grey

How we know

• Photo: published by Great Lakes Tattoo on greatlakestattoo.com; on TatSeek since 2026-09-30, with credit and a link back. The work belongs to the artist. Image rights
• Description and tags: TatSeek Vision Scan, an AI reading of each photo (Claude, by Anthropic) under written rules and a closed tag vocabulary, checked against photos labelled by hand. Shares of the picture are visual estimates, not measurements. Nothing about the person in the photo is recorded. How tagging works (Vision Scan tags)