Japanese Archery

Kyudo is Japanese archery. Kyudo the word is composed by the "Kyu" and "do". The "Kyu" means bow and "do" can be translated as "the way" or "the way". The Chinese word "Tao" uses the same character as the "Do".

In a ceremony Kyudo, there are two important elements. First is to shoot well, obviously. The second is the label of the shot, ie the protocol. We need to do Kyudo elegantly respecting others and place the shot. For the former, there is a sentence "Sheisha Hitteki" which means "with a shot right, the arrow still falls within the target." It looks very ordinary and simple but if we consider the difficulty, in general, to put the arrow in the target, then it takes a lot of sense. It invites us to try harder.