Fukushi Masaichi (福士 政一, 30 January 1878 – 3 June 1956) was a Japanese physician, pathologist and Emeritus Professor of Nippon Medical School in Tokyo.
He was chairman of the "Japanese Pathological Society" (日本病理学会, Nihon Byori Gakkai, lit.
The focus of his research was initially that syphilis caused aortitis and thyroid disease.
[3] In the following years he collected an archive of about 2000 "hides" and 3000 photographs which were lost in 1945, during World War II.
[4] Masaichi put some of his unique collection of tattooed hides and groomed skin that had been outsourced in the early 1940s in an air raid shelter.