Like some popular elements from oriental tattoo design such as lotus flowers and dragons, koi fish tattoo designs have permeated into Western tattoo culture - despite the perverse connotations tattoos have in Japan (tattoos were at one time illegal and are ofttimes related with the Japanese Mafia).The Japanese tattoo artists who prototypal started inking kois were inspired by an oriental legend that said if a koi carp could move upstream the river to Dragon Gate on the Yellow River, the koi would be rewarded by existence transformed into a dragon
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