The 73rd Omato National Archery Competition was held at the famed Sanjusangendo temple here on Jan. 15 with some 1,600 participants showing off their skills in kyudo, traditional Japanese archery.

She has since become highly trained in several forms of traditional Japanese martial arts, particularly archery, and now works to promote Japanese culture and artisans as a tourism ambassador.

Fortunately, you don’t have to spend half a decade studying archery in Japan to benefit from this central insight. To figure out what sources of resistance are holding you back, and discover how ...

KYOTO -- A "yabusame," or horseback archery, ritual was held at a Shinto shrine in this ancient Japanese capital to pray for the safety of the famed Aoi Matsuri, one of Kyoto's three major festivals.

That includes Japanese archery whiz and wheelchair athlete Shigesada Chika, who competed against able-bodied rivals last month at the All Japan Championships in Okazaki, Aichi prefecture.

Japanese horseback archery in Kyoto Ahead of the event, a Yabusame ritual was held at Shimogamo Shrine, a World Heritage Site. Archers adorned in the regalia of nobility and samurai, galloped on ...

The Japan Equestrian Archery Association will hold a yabusame event in Kamakura on Monday, September 23. Yabusame, part of Japan’s traditional culture, is a practice in which archers shoot through ...

Complex wooden lattices provide a stage set for archery competitions and boxing matches at this pair of university buildings in Tokyo by Japanese studio FT Architects (+ slideshow). Located on the ...

formed in 1931 to develop and promote archery as an Olympic sport, had used the font to match the style of its Tokyo 2020 logo of a Japanese ‘enso,’ a hand-drawn circle in a single stroke to ...