Japanese Kyudo Decoration Bow With Arrows. Japanese Kyudo Bow with Arrows. A Kyudo bow and arrows to display on your walls. a nicely crafted Kyudo bow with arrows for your room or dojo. Please Leave Reviews Below And Concerns On My Page. "Osu no Seishin". Kyudo or Kyūdō, literally meaning "way of the bow", is the Japanese art of archery. It is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and practitioners are known as kyudoka. It is estimated that there are approximately half a million practitioners of kyudo today. In 2005 the International Kyudo Federation had 132,760 graded members, but in addition to this kyudo is taught at Japanese schools and some traditions refrain from federation membership. Kyudo, the way of the bow, is a living tradition of meditative archery, rooted in the old warrior traditions of Japan. The perfect mastery of the bow was considered an art by the Samurai, an art that knew no other goal than the highest experience of the here and now, of the moment as it is, beyond any strategies of thought and concept. Today Kyudo is being practised by thousands of people all over the world for their mental schooling as well as for their spiritual development. The simple elegance of the movements, the beauty of the bow and the arrows and the atmosphere of quietness and dignity predominant in the practice place, have a great fascination for those of us who wish to walk upon the path of self-knowledge. Because to set out on the path of archery means to set out on a journey of understanding where you learn to see with a new set of eyes and to listen with new ears. If you look at it from the outside, Kyudo seems to be archery. Drawing the bow and shooting at the target resembles a test of skill, but Kyudo is no sport. To discover the true nature of Kyudo, through hitting the target one has to look inside and cut through and go beyond any kind of preoccupation, whether it be worry, hope, doubt or fear. Although the actual form of Kyudo has changed over and again and become more sophisticated over the past centuries, and has been subdivided into various teaching schools (Ryu) and those in turn into subgroups (Ha), according to style (Kata) and specific techniques (Waza), the essence of true Kyudo practice always remains the same. It is standing Zen.

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