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  2. Kyūdō - Wikipedia

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    Shihan Mato – A traditional style of Japanese archery using a short bow from a seated position. The Japanese culture and lifestyle television show Begin Japanology aired on NHK World featured a full episode on kyūdō in 2008. A European's take on kyūdō in Zen in the Art of Archery.

  3. Kyūjutsu - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Yabusame - Wikipedia

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    Yabusame (流鏑馬) is a type of mounted archery in traditional Japanese archery. An archer on a running horse shoots three special "turnip-headed" arrows successively at three wooden targets. This style of archery has its origins at the beginning of the Kamakura period.

  5. Yumi - Wikipedia

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    Japanese bows, arrows, and arrow-stand Yumi bow names. Yumi is the Japanese term for a bow.As used in English, yumi refers more specifically to traditional Japanese asymmetrical bows, and includes the longer daikyū and the shorter hankyū used in the practice of kyūdō and kyūjutsu, or Japanese archery.

  6. Shihan Mato - Wikipedia

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    Shihan Mato or Shihan-Mato (四半的) is a Japanese style of archery, employing a short bow, with the archer shooting from a sitting position. It is a separate style completely independent of and quite different from the other style of Japanese traditional archery, kyūdō.

  7. Ya (arrow) - Wikipedia

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    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. Unlike Western arrows, the ya is close to a metre long or longer.

  8. Traditional archery expert rates 10 archery scenes in movies ...

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    Archery expert Grizzly Jim looks at 10 bow-and-arrow scenes from popular TV shows and movies and rates them based on realism. He looks at "Hawkeye" S1E1 (2021), "The Hunger Games" (2012), "Brave ...

  9. Ogasawara-ryū - Wikipedia

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    It specialised in horsemanship , archery , mounted archery and etiquette, with an emphasis on ceremonial and ritual practice. [1] [2] Nagakiyo was the first to be called Ogasawara after his own village and was from the Minamoto clan. His father, Minamoto Tomitsu was highly skilled in both literary and military arts. Due to his bravery during ...