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Japanese (Irezumi) Hand Tattoo Designs
Japanese hand concepts — back-of-hand piece including fingers.
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Generate Japanese hand designs →About Japanese (Irezumi)
Japanese tattooing — irezumi — is the most complete tattoo tradition in the world: every motif carries meaning, and every gap is filled with flowing gakubori background so the whole body reads as one composition. It is the style most suited to large-scale work, from a single sleeve to a full soushinbori bodysuit.
Designing a hand
The back of the hand and fingers is bold and always visible, but the small, bony, high-movement surface needs simple, confident designs that won't blur with wear.
- Pain
- Sensitive over bone and tendons; sessions are short but sharp.
- Scope
- Usually a single short session; hands often need touch-ups as they wear.
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- Irezumi is built for scale.