Preparing the ink
We treat skin like porcelain: rare, unrepeatable, and worth the patience. Every piece begins as a conversation, becomes a drawing, and ends as something you carry for the rest of your life.
Fig. 01 — A peony, first pass of line.
Scroll sideways through the four styles we practise in the studio. Each one is drawn by hand, never traced from a catalogue.
Full backs, sleeves and body suits in the Japanese tradition. Dragons, koi, waves and wind bars, planned across the whole body and built over many sittings.
Single-needle botanicals, script and miniature studies. Quiet work that rewards a second look, with a single red accent where it matters.
Solid black ornamental pieces built around the body's own lines. Heavy saturation, clean negative space, designed to age gracefully.
Bold outlines, saturated reds, and illustrative detail. Classic tattoo grammar, redrawn with a contemporary hand.
Three artists, three specialisms, one studio standard. Every booking starts with the artist whose hand suits your piece.
Irezumi & large-scale work. Trained in Yokohama for nine years.
Botanicals, script and single-needle studies. Books open quarterly.
Ornamental blackwork and neo-traditional. Walk-ins on flash days.
Pre-drawn designs, first come first tattooed. Scroll into a selection of healed work from the studio.
Kenji's dragon back piece, finished this spring. Large-scale work is planned as one composition from the first session to the last.
Thirty minutes, in person or by video. We talk placement, scale, references and the story behind the piece.
Your artist draws it by hand and sends it to you before the session. Two rounds of revisions are included.
Private room, single-use needles, vegan inks. Bring snacks, headphones and someone you like.
Aftercare kit, a written guide, and a free touch-up within ninety days. We want to see it healed.
“A tattoo is the only artwork that goes home with you and never comes back.”
— Kenji Arai, founder