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Kasagake – A type of Japanese mounted archery; in contrast to yabusame, the types of targets are various and the archer shoots without stopping the horse. While yabusame has been played as a part of formal ceremonies, kasagake has developed as a game or practice of martial arts, focusing on technical elements of horse archery.
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.
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 ...
Yabusame archer wearing traditional 13th century clothing. There are two schools of mounted archery that perform yabusame. One is the Ogasawara school. The founder, Ogasawara Nagakiyo, was instructed by the shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147–1199) to start a school for archery. Yoritomo wanted his warriors to be highly skilled and disciplined.
The Turkish bow is a recurved composite bow used in the Ottoman Empire.The construction is similar to that of other classic Asiatic composite bows, with a wooden core (maple was most desirable), animal horn on the belly (the side facing the archer), and sinew on the front, with the layers secured together with animal glue.
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Popinjay or papingo (an old word for parrot, designating a painted bird), also called pole archery, is a shooting sport that can be performed with either rifles or archery equipment. The object of popinjay is to knock artificial birds off their perches.
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