Japanese Longbow Making
Things you ll need 10 foot by 2 inch wood rasp large boiling pot.
Japanese longbow making. The art of making japanese bows 1. In part 1 jaap koppedrayer is preparing bamboo for the making of the yumi. The changing of society and the military class taking power at the end of the first millennium created a requirement for education in archery this led to the birth of the first kyujutsu ryūha style the henmi. Today i will talk about the japanese yumi which is the bow used in kyūdō or kyūjutsu which are both japanese forms of archery used originally by the samurai.
This series of 9 videos gives you a taste of the process of making a japanese bow the yumi. As used in english yumi refers more specifically to traditional japanese asymmetrical bows and includes the longer daikyū and the shorter hankyū used in the practice of kyūdō and kyūjutsu or japanese archery. Various of nakagawa shinji practicing kyudo japanese archery 2. The yumi was an important weapon of the samurai warrior during the feudal period of japan.
The beginning of archery in japan is pre historical. Soundbite japanese nakagawa shinji dan kyudo master one of the highest ranked practitioners in japan. Yumi is the japanese term for a bow. The first images picturing the distinct japanese asymmetrical longbow are from the yayoi period c.
Arrows are 1 meter bamboo with self cut and self dyed turkey feathers bone nocks and a japanese target mato point. If you haven t read the first part make sure you head over there to read all about the english longbow. Well here is how. It shoots japanese arrows called ya.
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