Amanda and Her Koi

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVzCXZtdhQKCtr2VfBAjCntuQoXbOynOCO9G5z5jGo8kUedxQPHVVmX72UCc80FawEur5M3RZ-IdhNpm0ILiIjTIK0B3-IGHBgSTxvKPHBJ8XjdBKtVdwmth4qrWPHNxVec_bu0DkE3wM/s1600/Koi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVzCXZtdhQKCtr2VfBAjCntuQoXbOynOCO9G5z5jGo8kUedxQPHVVmX72UCc80FawEur5M3RZ-IdhNpm0ILiIjTIK0B3-IGHBgSTxvKPHBJ8XjdBKtVdwmth4qrWPHNxVec_bu0DkE3wM/s640/Koi.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br />This <i>koi</i> is swimming upstream on Amanda's left arm.<br /><br />Talking to her in Penn Station, Amanda explained that she was "really interested in the Japanese style".<br /><br />She received the tattoo from Pat James Dean at <a href="http://www.neptunetattoo.com/">Tattooville</a>, in Neptune, New Jersey. Done in two sessions, Amanda told me that she selected Pat, in part, because he had his whole back inked in the traditional Japanese fashion. I'm going to take a leap and say it might have been by Horiyoshi III of Yokohama, based on a reference in his bio on the <a href="http://www.neptunetattoo.com/">Tattooville site</a>.<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal">Thanks to Amanda for sharing this, one of four tattoos she has, with us here on Tattoosday.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div>

Amanda and Her Koi

This koi is swimming upstream on Amanda's left arm. Talking to her in Penn Station, Amanda explained that she was "really interest...

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