The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-15
THE JAPANESE ANNA.
rHt ARTIST WHO KNsADS AND
RuBS THE MUSCLES.

e~css-.IapancSc Medical students.
y | am sitting in my room there comes
10 my ears the sound of q shrill pipe,
sounding not unlike q NE. The traveller
IN Japan, 20 where he may, almost inNari-
ably hears The sound 40 night, and VIII be
told in answer 90 his inquiries that the
performance IS a professional shampoocr
or ANNA. Many of these people are blind,
and 40 ni-ht pqssup and down the streets,
feeling their way with long sticks, which
they hold iu one hand, while with tho
other hand they play upon the bamboo
pipe. which seems % notify the world OF
their presence
The ANNA Is not a shamp00cr ln the
American sense Of the term. IIc does not
c0ninc his operations 20 the head and
hair. lie practices what is known boy the
French as the massage His art consists
in kucadinc al the muscles of the body
and bringing them into Play, and hc is re-
gardcd ass au-cful mnctioulry. second only
in importance Co the physician as "a healer
81 physical disorders The art b. prac-
ticcl not Only by men. hut also uy women,
and 30 almost every Jim where have
stopped among the nr-t persons tO pr0lcr
'N'i H'i f.'H "'' ''' "'
once have lic'iou ID iH'ii iA'-''' 20
H.io" i"f "''t .' ''.'.l i'.Oo
'i Dough- ..' '.''
mcoNl't ai.'i I' '.-.,'. '.' "J"
Tired ana .fN'is from II. '''..' '''l
u0n oI tiuI'I-t th'
gcstion of Dr huipp.N- ita' i"i-h' oe
NcIl to allow an a'1 io poo us
was acccdoc t'. more .'H" curiosity US TO
tnc possible results t.Hn irom amy iliih
10 the chIoaci 0t thc treatment.
TIE particular atlnl Who came jo oar
room and -Na Hro'ci H- Na t' N" Ay
and aWlrIly u-IF woman ni lN.." age
whose ~hl1ckctei it..h NI.h 'i'l
looked lEc Cd rnW DI Ni'. I.'io'. r'. -.l
in her iace Dunn .'
opportunity i' q..-. 'tI i.'' ID. ID '"'
cuisines, ANA iciIi.' '''ih Dbl. I"''e d
number 0i mtcrc-iu FACTS INFORMED
Us that before commencing Iic rf.. l'c M
her arc She has been ohAt.i lo 'i
apprenticeship OF three years. I-i'hs
which time she react largo n0Ii"ci oI
japanese books tearhlne OF 'H,
body, and especially the muscles, anna i't
become learned ln anatomy 'N pIs-i
olOcy. She had pIacll''u lh' 'l' i't
ten years already amy HAl NY l'.i W DO
gained her NNcllhNol enc tlal'i thal
she was able boz Ole evening, from fu TO-
90 treat four persons. Who paid hDr % fee
IF fifteen a.n apiece Her Dlily earnings
were. however. lut moro than Thirty som
un am average, or about tWeuty-iuur CENTS
OF American currency.
In thc operation of ehlUpn..n-, as
r-acuccl hy fuc ANNA, the patient lies
un0n % iuf0n or rur While the ANNA
1nccIs beside lim. Ih' irso act ln the
drama deals with the abdominal cavity.
Placing one hand ON either side Of the
abdomen. above thr hips. thc AMIN COM
presses thc bo1y latcrllIy 20 number OF
times, Then drt"irt up th' loose Iolo5 on
1esh, Dee huclds unl pinchcs them, ai the
same time making pas,c, winch corfe-
-p0ud Boa their direction with that of The
colon This portion oi the treatment
ended, each leg l5 attacked and vigorously
rubbed and kne1ded, the process termin-
ating by % smart hastinad, administered
o. the s0lcs of the feet.
In rubbing and kncading The muscles
use is made of a round bail Of lockwood,
though Che ANNA To- whose treatment !
submitted employed only der fingers and
Anuchlcs. The arms and chest are treated
a. the lcgs, and then the patient Is turned
over face downward. and the shoulders
and back are punched and kncadcd un.l
the breath almost for9ahcs the body. Inc
entire performance ends with % vigorous
rubbing of the neck. which, 900 my case
seemed to threaten jhe disloc1tch oil inc
C%ervical Nertc'r" Ihc amount Oh
strength 200 urgcr' ana wrists uleplayed
by thc ANNA is Quite rcnlhrhaulc. our
ANNA shampoocd iouf persons ih success
sion the evening we engaged htr, cohsuul-
mig four hours 30 thc task, during when
she was working with all her might al
most constantly, only stopping 10 WIPE OH
tine pcrspiratl0u which hoWcd from hcr
face.
The result az the experiment, SO FAR MS
I personally was c~oncotncI, was, thnk,
such ass OBJ warrant the repetition " ihe
treatment under like Dr'uineiances /
awokc ON the MORO" lc'Ihs i1F less uieu
and sore thHn h"d reason I'D ncucNe my
mountain hnhln would nave IeiJ me.
Ihe ait OF lh' ANNA appears HNeiy ,o
I'VE loI lo"e 'i'' D." japan as IL ~ l'