Koi Japanese Legs — tattoo by Chip Douglas

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A japanese tattoo of koi carp with waves, plus smaller details: red dragon on the other leg, placed on the thigh. Done in full colour. 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: Koi carp 40% · Waves 30% · Red dragon on the other leg 15% · Ornament 15%
• Placement: Thigh
• Colour: Color
• Pain here: Barely there, 1 of 5; healing: easy

Details

• What makes it recognisable: subject 45 · color 35 · style 20
• Visibility here: easy to cover
• Tags (each opens similar tattoos): Japanese (Irezumi) · Dragon · Koi Fish · Ocean & Waves · Thigh · Color

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 v3)