Kyudo -Japanese Archery-

Kyudo or Kyūdō , literally meaning "way of the bow", is the Japanese art of archery. It is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and practitioners are known as kyudoka .
It is estimated that there are approximately half a million practitioners of kyudo today.In 2005 the International Kyudo Federation had 132,760 graded members,but in addition to this kyudo is taught at Japanese schools and some traditions refrain from federation membership.
Many Japanese high schools and colleges have kyudo clubs (bukatsu) in which students gather after regular classes to practice kyudo. Recently these have begun appearing in junior high schools as well, but it is generally left until high school because of the extreme danger of the sport. Because of the maturity needed in both mind and body to handle a bow and arrow, Japanese culture tends to prevent teaching kyudo until the age of 15 or 16.

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Japanese bow is known as Yumi and is the longest bow ever created as it is even longer than the iconic English longbow. Using such bows created problems for horse archers to be able to use them effectively as its length made them difficult to manuevere on horseback. Horse archers in Asian mainland chose the shorter, more compact but more poweful recurved composite bow. However Japanese horse archers had developed methods to use them effectively on horseback.

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弓道は女がやるがいい’男のは観たくない’
英国人が言っていたElegance'結局それが正しい
女学生がやっているのが一番いい’