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    Kyūdō (Japanese: 弓道) is the Japanese martial art of archery. Kyūdō is based on kyūjutsu ("art of archery"), which originated with the samurai class of...
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  • Tsurune (Japanese: ツルネ -風舞高校弓道部-, Hepburn: Tsurune: Kazemai Kōkō Kyūdō-bu, lit. 'Kazemai High School Archery Team') is a Japanese light novel series written...
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    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...
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  • Kendo Kenjutsu Kenpo Kosho Shorei Ryu Kempo Kūdō Kusarigamajutsu Kyokushin Kyūdō Kyūjutsu Naginatajutsu Maniwa Nen-ryū Ninjutsu Nippon Kempo Niten Ichi-ryū...
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    longer daikyū (大弓) and the shorter hankyū (半弓) used in the practice of kyūdō and kyūjutsu, or Japanese archery. The yumi was an important weapon of the...
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    Kyudo Nakagawa (中川 球童, February 12, 1927—December 29, 2007), or Nakagawa Kyūdō, was a Japanese-born Rinzai rōshi who for many years led Soho Zen Buddhist...
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  • diving Diving Archery Field archery Flight archery Gungdo Indoor archery Kyūdō Mounted archery Popinjay Run archery Target archery Baseball Baseball5 Corkball...
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    Boulder, United States) 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. Beginning...
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  • professor Eugen Herrigel, published in 1948, about his experiences studying Kyūdō, a form of Japanese archery, when he lived in Japan in the 1920s. It is...
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  • mother who used to play kyūdō in the past to a kyūdō hall, where he witnesses Masaki Takigawa's grandfather Akihiro Yasaka's kyūdō and hears the sound of...
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  • Sojutsu Naginatajutsu Bojutsu Okinawan kobudo Iaido Kusarigamajutsu Kendo Kyudo Tessenjutsu Shurikenjutsu Bajutsu Jujutsu Taidō Kūdō Korea Choi Kwang Do...
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    2002, p. 34–35. Hideharu Onuma, Dan DeProspero, Jackie DeProspero (1993) "Kyudo: The Essence and Practice of Japanese Archery," p. ix, Kodansha International...
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  • refers specifically to the body's posture after a technique is executed. In kyūdō, zanshin means the body posture after the loosing of an arrow; the posture...
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    Chain art and other tools kyūjutsu tessenjutsu kusarijutsu aiki jujutsu kyūdō Cane art kusariganayutsu chikarakurabe shagei bōjutsu manrikikusari chogusoku...
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    hold the bow depending upon eye dominance. (One exception is in modern kyūdō where all archers are trained to hold the bow in the left hand.) Therefore...
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    "[Japanese] Arrow Barrel") or Yadzutsu is a type of arrow quiver used in kyūdō, Japanese archery, using the Japanese longbow, the Yumi. It is generally...
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    crafting the bows, called yumi, and arrows used in the Japanese martial art kyūdō. The first gunpowder-based weapons, such as the fire lance, were made of...
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    with disciplines such as kenjutsu and kendo (sword), bojutsu (staff), and kyūdō (archery). Similarly, modern martial arts and sports include modern fencing...
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    prevent potential wounds from skates in the event of a fall or collision. In kyudo, or Japanese archery, it may be used for bow strings, as an alternative...
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    or 9 points if it's an Imperial target. In Japanese archery, known as Kyūdō, the bullseye is called "zuboshi". The term is also used as idiomatic slang...
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    officially changed to kyūdō, and following the example of other martial arts that have been systematizing for educational purposes, kyūdō also reorganized...
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    of martial arts, such as kendo, iaido, taidō, aikido, jōdō, ryū-te, and kyūdō. Sumo wrestlers, who do not wear hakama in the context of their sport, are...
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    arrangement (ikebana), Japanese calligraphy (shodō), and Japanese archery (Kyudo). Today, this ranking system is part of the hallmark, landscape, and cultural...
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  • Olympic Games demonstration programme in 1964. This included demonstration of kyūdō, kendo and sumo. Judo, which is a budo, was part of the regular program...
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    sadō), calligraphy (書道, shodō), and martial arts such as archery (弓道, kyūdō). The Japanese character 道 means the way or the path and indicates that...
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    is usually translated as "the way of …". Examples include aikido, judo, kyūdō and kendo. Thus karatedō is more than just empty hand techniques. It is...
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  • Ankō Asato Born 1827 Ryūkyū Kingdom Died 1906 (aged 78–79) Style Shuri-te, Kendo, Kyudo Teacher(s) Sokon Matsumura Notable students Gichin Funakoshi...
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  • kalaripayattu, karate, kenjutsu, kenpō, kickboxing, kobudō, Krav Maga, kyūdō, bōjutsu, Muay Thai, ninjutsu, pankration, sambo, savate, silat, taekwondo...
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    Kyūdō archers participating in the Ōmato Archery Competition at Sanjūsangen-dō...
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    footsoldiers. Heki Danjō's teaching started one of the prominent schools of kyūdō, which is named Heki-ryū after him. Several Heki-ryū branches are taught...
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