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Irezumi Terms: official and unofficial

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SOME TERMS ARE OFFICIAL, SOME ARE MADE UP.

This is my personal reference for my tattoo design service and my future tattooing clients. 
I actually do have a book which illustrates some of these, but the book is somewhere in my storage, and I was too lazy to go through looking for it. A google search proved difficult as all hell (I found a yellow sheet with kanji, but never found a file big enough that I could make out the kanji and look it up. And it took even longer to find some post which reblogged a sheet from Horimatsu's site www.horimatsu.com/sizes-and-pl… . But it was missing a couple of terms. Since my search brought up so little, I thought it best to contribute to the reference source: so I just decided to take what I google researched, and make my own sheet. 

There are terms missing. I think the hikae has variation terms (for the nipples). And I did find the official terms for the unofficial terms, but japanese is my second language to the point that I can kinda tell when words may not be correct/ I can cross-reference definitions, and those "official" terms didn't seem to check out to me. 

So, some are official, and some are just for my personal usage in my art services.

君が正しく知識であれば、私を修正してください。
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I didn't know such a thing existed till I looked it up! I find it very appealing... I may not be able to have the anatomy of my persona but perhaps his fur pattern and then some. :nod: