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Yabusame at Odawara Castle in Kanagawa

Mar 19th, 2009 | By Shane Sakata | Category: Featured Articles

Japanese men dressed in traditional hunting attire, thundering down a narrow dirt track on horseback, taking aim at small wooden targets with bow and arrow – that’s yabusame and you can see it in Kanagawa this weekend.
Traditional Japanese archery on horseback, or yabusame, is impressive to behold.  The riders, known as ite, display an amazing [...]