The Shiatsu is a practice manipolatoria that has ancient origins but his/her codification as precise bodily technique it goes up again to enough recent times. The first interventions effected in Japan with a technique manual type pressorio to which the name of Shiatsu is given, go up again in fact to the period between 1910 and 1920, and it is always in that years that the first book is published to it entitled, "Shiatsu Ho", to work of Tamai Tempaku. The official recognition of this discipline will happen even more however you delay, in 1955, to work of the Office of the Japanese Health Despite the recent birth relatively and its Japanese matrix in reality this technique sinks its roots in the ancient oriental culture and precisely in the arts Chinese manipolatorie, practiced for the care of the health already beginning from 2.500 - 3.000 to.C. This people, in fact, held in great consideration the techniques of bodily manipulation and you/he/she had inserted her in a vision ampler than it also involved every aspect of the human life to philosophical level. In the VII century around, thanks to the Buddhist monks, the rich baggage of the experience, of the culture and of the Chinese tradition landed in Japan finding a fertile ground of maintenance and development, also the arts manipolatories spread in this country. Among the most meaningful techniques, of the hundred around that you are been handed down, a well precise intervention was present type pressorio on the body. And it is really this concept of pressure that the Japanese have isolated and employee in autonomous way in a new and unusual manual art: the Shiatsu. .
