Shizuto Masunaga

Shizuto Masunaga (増永 静人, Masunaga Shizuto; 1925–1981) was a Japanese Shiatsu practitioner and author of books on Shiatsu. He was born in June 1925 in Kure, Hiroshima and graduated in psychology from Kyoto University in 1949. In 1959, he graduated from the Japan Shiatsu College and went on to teach psychology and shiatsu at the college. At the same time, he was professor of psychology at Tokyo University. Masunaga grew up in a family of shiatsu practitioners, with his mother having studied with …