Fukushi Katsunari

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Signature of Fukushi Katsunari - Manfred Kohrs archive 1975

Fukushi Katsunari ( Japanese 福士 勝 成 ; * 1917 , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese doctor, pathologist , non-fiction author and professor emeritus from Nippon Medical University in Tokyo ; like his father Fukushi Masaichi , he is also known in Japan as "Irezumi Hakase" ( 刺青 博士 , roughly: "Dr. Tattoo").

Life

Katsunari Fukushi graduated from Nippon Medical School with a degree in medicine in 1943, received his doctorate there in 1960 and received his habilitation in 1963 . He was chairman of the "Japanese Leprosy Society" ( 日本 癩 学会 , English The Japanese Leprosy Association , today: 日本 ハ ン セ ン 病 学会 ).

The "skin collection"

In the Pathology Department of the University of Tokyo, Fukushi Katsunari maintains a unique collection of tattooed and prepared skin worldwide, which is also referred to as the skin museum in some publications. The inventory includes around 105 tattooed human skins, many of them as so-called "full body suits" . Fukushi Katsunari took over this collection from his father and expanded it to over 100 copies in the following years. In the late 1970s, tattoo artist Manfred Kohrs had a meeting with Fukushi Katsunari. To research the 4th volume of his book series tattoo-time , Ed Hardy visited the skin museum and met Katsunari Fukushi.

Works (selection)

  • D. E. Hardy , Akimitsu Takagi, Katsunari Fukushi: Japan's Tattoo Arts Horiyoshi's World. ( 日本 刺青 芸 術 ・ 彫 芳 ), Ningen No Kagakushinsha, Tokyo 1997, 179 pp. ISBN 4-822-60164-1 .
  • Iizawa Tadasu, Fukushi Katsunari: Genshoku Nihon shisei taikan. (原色 日本 刺 靑 大 鑑), Haga Shoten Shōwa 48, Tokyo 1973, OCLC ocm09770907

literature

  • Christine Quigley: Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century. McFarland, 2006, ISBN 0-786-42851-1 , p. 152.
  • Mark C. Taylor: Hiding Religion and Postmodernism. University of Chicago Press 1997, ISBN 0-226-79159-9 , p. 77.
  • Karin Beeler: Tattoos, Desire and Violence: Marks of Resistance in Literature, Film and Television. McFarland 2006, ISBN 0-786-48253-2 , pp. 78-80.
  • Clinton Sanders, D Angus Vail: Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing. Temple University Press 2008, ISBN 1-592-13889-6 , p. 2017.
  • Mark Poysden, Marco Bratt: A history of Japanese body suit tattooing. KIT Publishers 2006, p. 158.
  • Ed Hardy: tattoo-time 4, LIVE AND DEATH TATTOS , Hardy Marks Publications, Hawaii 1988, ISBN 0-945367-05-8
  • Maleen Pacha: Heart in Your Pants - The secrets of the tattoo. Spring 1960

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maleen Pacha: Heart in Your Pants - The secrets of the tattoo. Pp. 115-116.
  2. ^ Clinton Sanders, D Angus Vail: Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing. P. 217.
  3. ↑ Sabrina Ungemach in Tattoo Kulture Magazine No. 22, 2017, p. 48.
  4. ^ Meanwhile, at the Tattoo Museum in Tokyo ... In: Dr Hermes MORE RETRO-SCANS. Retrieved January 13, 2014 .
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Fukushi is the family name, Katsunari the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Fukushi, Katsunari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 福士 勝 成 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture