"Does it hurt?" Minamoto Tamako asked.
"It doesn't hurt." Fushimi Roku said with a stiff face.
Foot massages were introduced to Japan as far back as the Tang Dynasty and developed into "Soku-shin-do." In the 90s, an international seminar on the Juku Stone Health Method was held in Tokyo, bringing foot health reflexology to the forefront internationally... So Japan also has the saying "the place that hurts indicates a deficiency."
Even if it's not widely circulated, Fushimi Roku refuses to admit defeat.
Generally speaking, large Japanese families place great emphasis on social status and reputation. Daughters are primarily taught etiquette, music, dance, painting, literature, and other refined arts and cultural knowledge, aiming to cultivate them into ladies of extraordinary demeanor and elegant speech... Professions like foot massage, typically seen as physical labor of serving others, were naturally not on Tamako's curriculum.
