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🇯🇵 Techniques of Japan

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Shiatsu
指圧指圧（しあつ）
A practice developed in Japan using pressure with fingers, palms and other forms of contact, often over clothing. Namikoshi and Masunaga traditions illustrate differences in teaching and understandings of the body; no single intensity or benefit defines them all.
Pressure · Stretch
Traditional massageClinical massageView →
Japan
Anma
あん摩按摩（あんま）
A manual practice carried forward in Japan with historical connections to Chinese anmo. It combines kneading, stroking and pressure, often over clothing. The contributions of practitioners with visual impairments are an important part of its history.
Pressure · Percussion
Traditional massageView →
Japan
Facial Massage and Kobido
フェイシャルマッサージと古美道古美道（こびどう）
Kobido is a name and system associated with Japanese facial manual work, including descriptions of quick finger movements and kneading. It is not a synonym for all facial massage; lineage accounts and use of the name require individual verification.
Face · Head · Lymph
Traditional massageBeauty massageView →
United States
Chair Massage (Seated Massage)
チェアマッサージ（シーテッド・マッサージ）On-site massage
Chair massage treats a clothed receiver seated forward in a purpose-built chair, working neck, shoulders, back, arms and hands in 10 to 30 minutes. David Palmer of San Francisco, drawing on his study of Japanese anma, systematised it as 'on-site massage' in the 1980s and designed the first dedicated chair in 1986. In Japan, short seated anma and shiatsu spread at the same time as 'quick massage', and the two together underpin the championship's chair category.
Pressure · Percussion
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