A phoenix tattoo design for a tattoo artist or art print, in Japanese irezumi style. The red and gold bird spreads its wings above long blue and green tail feathers, with pink peonies, grey clouds, ocean waves and falling maple leaves on a cream ground. Swap the bird, flower or colours, or add your own placement and size, to make a custom flash piece.

A Japanese traditional irezumi tattoo design on a plain warm off-white paper ground: one large phoenix (ho-o) rising upward through clouds, drawn as a flat hand-inked graphic for a shoulder blade. The bird climbs on a tall S-curve from the lower left to the upper right, wings spread wide and swept back like an open fan, head raised with a sharp curved beak and an alert eye, crest of three flowing plumes. Its long tail feathers sweep down and curl in ribbon-like S-curves, each feather outlined in thick confident black line with clear gaps between feathers so the outlines trace easily. Wing feathers are layered in rows of rounded scallops with bold black contours. Colour: vermilion red and golden yellow on the body and wings, indigo blue and jade green on the tail feather tips, with black shading graded smoothly from solid black into bare paper at the feather bases and cloud edges, and cream paper left clear as highlights. Around the lower body, thick stylised Japanese clouds curl in rounded spirals with sharp tapering tails, with a few wind bars streaking diagonally behind the wings and a small crest of curled wave foam at the very bottom. Two peonies with jade leaves sit low on the left and a few falling maple leaves drift near the upper wing. All background elements are bold black outlines with graded black shading fading into the plain ground, and open paper stays visible between shapes. The whole motif forms a tall oval silhouette that fits the shoulder blade, with a generous clean margin of plain paper on every side and no frame or border. Flat even lighting, no cast shadows, no glow, no photorealism. No text, no letters, no numbers, no ribbon banners, no swallows, no stars.