Fukushi Masaichi

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Fukushi Masaichi ( Japanese 福士 政 一 ; born January 30, 1878 , Yamaguchi Prefecture as Obata Masaichi ( 尾 畑 政 一 ); † June 3, 1956 ) was a Japanese doctor, pathologist and professor emeritus of the Nippon Medical University in Tokyo , as well as the founder the world's only collection of tattooed human skins . Fukushi Masaichi and his son Fukushi Katsunari are also known in Japan as "Irezumi Hakase" ( 刺青 博士 , roughly: "Dr. Tattoo").

Life

Fukushi Masaichi studied medicine at the Imperial University of Tokyo . After studying in Germany, he began teaching at the Kanazawa Medical School (now Kanazawa University ) from 1914 . He was chairman of the "Japanese Pathological Society" ( 日本 病理学 会 , Nihon Byōri Gakkai , English The Japanese Society of Pathology ). His research initially focused on syphilis- caused aortitis and thyroid diseases .

His research on human skin (from 1907) brought him into contact with many tattooed people. So from 1926 he became interested in the art of Japanese tattoos , performed autopsies on corpses, removed the skin and researched methods to preserve the skin. In the years that followed, he created an archive with around 2,000 tattoo templates and 3,000 photographs that were lost in 1945 due to the war . Fukushi Masaichi himself was not tattooed.

From 1926 onwards, Fukushi Masaichi created a unique collection of tattooed and prepared skin, which in the early 1940s was moved to an air raid shelter to protect it from the effects of war and was thus preserved for posterity.

literature

  • Life Magazine , Apr. 3, 1950, Volume 28, No. 14, ISSN  0024-3019 .
  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 福士 政 一 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved January 14, 2014 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Ed Hardy: tattoo-time 4, LIVE AND DEATH TATTOS , p. 74.
  3. ↑ Ed Hardy: tattoo-time 4, LIVE AND DEATH TATTOS , p. 75.
  4. ↑ Christine Quigley: Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century. P. 152.
  5. ↑ Life Magazine, Apr. 3, 1950, Volume 28, No. 14, p. 14.
  6. ^ Karin Beeler: Tattoos, Desire and Violence: Marks of Resistance in Literature, Film and Television. P. 79.
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Fukushi is the family name, Masaichi the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Fukushi, Masaichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 福士 政 一 (Japanese); 尾 畑 政 一 (Japanese, maiden name); Obata Masaichi (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Yamaguchi Prefecture , Japan
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1956