(Thread) Japanese tattooing, or irezumi (入れ墨), is said to have originated in the Jomon Period (10,000 BCE-300 CE).
Below, one of the 105 full-bodied tattoo skins that have been donated to the Medical Pathology Museum at Tokyo University upon the death of their owners.
The museum's collection was put together by Fukushi Masaichi, a Japanese pathologist who even offered to pay for and finish the tattoos for the owners if they agreed to donate their skins upon death.
The photos below were taken in the 1850s-70s, and were all originally hand-tinted (not colorized).
Wounded German soldier lying on makeshift bedding after being taken prisoner during an attack on an American fuel depot at outset of the last major German offensive of WWII, aka the Battle of the Bulge.
Colorized for The World Aflame. Read and see more in the book.
The "Bulge" was the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in World War II and the third-deadliest campaign in American history.