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The archer raises the bow above the head to prepare for the draw. Hikiwake (引分け), drawing apart. The archer starts bringing down the bow while spreading his arms, simultaneously pushing the bow with the left hand and drawing the string with the right. Daisan (大三), "Big Three." This forms the midway point in Hikiwake. Kai (会), the ...
Kyudo practitioner in standard kneeling position (kiza) establishing mindfulness as she pursues the ultimate goal of the Kyudo practitioner, which can be gained when archers shoot correctly (i.e. truthfully) with virtuous spirit and attitudes established through the three main desirable key attributes, (真善美), roughly approximated as "truth-goodness-beauty"; Shin, Zen, Bi.
Kyudo World Cup - International Competition, 2014. The All Nippon Kyudo Federation (ANKF) (Japanese: 全日本弓道連盟) (全弓連) is a public interest incorporated foundation and sports governing body that presides over the martial art of Kyūdō in Japan by organising standards seminars and events for the majority of kyudo practitioners in the country.
Zen in the Art of Archery (Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschießens) is a book by German philosophy professor Eugen Herrigel, published in 1948, about his experiences studying Kyūdō, a form of Japanese archery, when he lived in Japan in the 1920s.
Two matoya, target practice arrows. Ya (矢, arrow) is the Japanese word for arrow, and commonly refers to the arrows used in kyūdō (弓道, Japanese archery). [1] Ya also refers to the arrows used by samurai during the feudal era of Japan.
Ensō calligraphy by Kanjuro Shibata XX. On-yumishi Kanjuro Shibata XX (御弓師 二十代 柴田 勘十郎 Shibata Kanjūrō born 1921 in Kyoto, Japan, died on 21 October 2013 in Boulder, United States) [1] was twentieth in a line of master bowmakers and a kyūdō teacher of the Heki Ryū Bishū Chikurin-ha (日置流尾州竹林派) tradition.
Kyūjutsu (弓術) ("art of archery") is the traditional Japanese martial art of wielding a bow as practiced by the samurai class of feudal Japan. [1] Although the samurai are perhaps best known for their swordsmanship with a katana (), kyūjutsu was actually considered a more vital skill for a significant portion of Japanese history.
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