About the Manufacturer Fujiiryoki – Since 1954, the manufacturer Fujiiryoki Medical Instruments was the first in the world to mass produce full body massage chairs. The company has spread this “unique Japanese massage culture” throughout the world and contributed to the improvement of many people’s lifestyle and health management. Since its founding, Fujiiryoki has always developed products that meet customer needs and is currently developing a wide range of products that are certified medical devices. History of massage chairs First design prize.
About the Manufacturer Fujiiryoki
1967 – Fuji creates the first “Tapping” and “Kneading” massage chair in the world.
1975 – Fuji creates the following model that automatically switches from kneading to tapping.
1979 – First rolling full body massage chair.
1995 – First air cushion massage chair in the world.
2001 – The world’s first 3D navigation system.
2003 – Received the special design award and brought the heating function to the 3D massage chair with air cushion massage, rolling massage, automatic switching of kneading and tapping, tapping and kneading.
2004 – The world’s first shoulder massage chair.
2013 – Receives the Certified Design Award for Mechanical Engineering Heritage from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. “Origin” of the massage chair: The first automatic massage chair FUJIIRYOKI.
1954 – The first mass-produced massage chair in the world was born in Osaka, Japan.
2014 – Officially designated as a “Heritage of Mechanical Engineering”. In 1954, FUJIIRYOKI developed the world’s first mass-produced massage chair.
About the Manufacturer Fujiiryoki
About the manufacturer Fujiiryoki – FUJIIRYOKI was founded in 1954. Later, Nobuo Fujimoto, who was the founder and opened “Fujiiryoki Workshop” in Hannamancho, Abeno-ku, Osaka City and this was the beginning.
At that time, many Japanese went to the city’s public baths. Fujimoto, who sold brushes for scrubbing tiles in public bathrooms, wondered if he could do something in the locker room where people gather and relax to cure the day’s fatigue, and began to develop a massage chair. The first prototypes were made with a “mountain of waste”. After trying to assemble several times from materials such as wood, baseballs, bicycle chains, car handles, the world’s first mass-produced massage chair “the first machine, FUJIIRYOKI automatic massage” was finally completed in 1954.
Only one “kneading” massage function has been equipped and it is a simple mechanism where the massage rollers move up and down by turning the handle which is placed on the side. It broke the traditional idea of ”tapping, kneading by hand or using human tools” and became a revolutionary product as “massage machine, just sitting on the chair”. Massage chairs have become popular from public baths, hot spring inns to homes and around the world to continue to support people’s health. The first machine created is the origin of the massage chair.
