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  2. All Nippon Kyudo Federation - Wikipedia

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    This manual, The Kyudo Kyohon, includes various forms, techniques, terminology and even details on how to conduct a tournament. The ANKF standardised the basic etiquette and shooting technique for kyudo after the war, drawing on a number of different styles, including the Ogasawara-ryū , Heki-ryū , and Honda-ry ū .

  3. Kyūdō - Wikipedia

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    The official American Kyudo Renmei was founded in 1998, and is the official body recognised by Japan in association with the IKYF for Kyudo in the United States. It is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Japanese archery, kyūdō, in the Americas, and has clubs in nine states, and some connected groups.

  4. International Kyudo Federation - Wikipedia

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    The International Kyudo Federation (abbreviated as IKYF) is the International body for the Governance of Kyudo Worldwide, establishing standards, grading and competitions throughout the world.The IKYF is a body associated with the All Nippon Kyudo Federation (ANKF) sharing in its role to govern and support Kyudo. While The ANKF governs kyudo ...

  5. Dan (rank) - Wikipedia

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    Dan ranks are also given for strategic board games such as Go, Japanese chess , and renju, as well as for other arts such as the tea ceremony (sadō or chadō), flower arrangement , Japanese calligraphy (shodō), and Japanese archery (Kyudo). Today, this ranking system is part of the hallmark, landscape, and cultural "adhesive" of modern ...

  6. Talk:Kyūdō/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    4 Time to master kyudo? 7 comments. 5 Myth about haya and otoya. 2 comments. 6 Considered a female sport? 2 comments. 7 Proposed sections. 3 comments.

  7. 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.

  8. List of koryū schools of martial arts - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of koryū (lit. "traditional schools", or "old schools") martial arts. These are schools of martial arts that originated in Japan , and were founded prior to 1876, when the act prohibiting the wearing of swords ( Haitōrei ) came into effect after the Meiji Restoration .

  9. 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.