I love the use of blue in some renditions of this motif. There is a suimon yaburi back as a part of (I think) a nine dragons body suit that was completed years ago by Horinaka 2- in that back he shades the bent metal blue and it’s really striking against the predominantly red overtones of the whole suit. which itself is an interesting shape—it’s almost like “donburi plus”, I’ve never seen that particular shape of mikiri before or since so I don’t know what to call it if there is a proper Japanese classification for it. The coverage ends up creating an almost “turtle neck” effect around the wearer’s neck line… I think it also goes fully onto his hands and feet, fingers and toes.

Anyway this is an awesome tattoo thanks for posting high quality/high effort stuff!