Yabusame at Meiji Shrine, Tokyo ~Japanese Mounted Archery~ [iPhone 4S/HD] | Tokyo
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Yabusame, or traditional Japanese mounted archery, is the ritual dating back to 9th century. It is performed to entertain the gods. An archer dressed in a noble costume rides a horse and shoots three arrows successively at three targets. Even today, you can see Yabusame at many places. Also at Meiji Shrine, the shrine surrounded by 170 thousand trees in central Tokyo, Yabusame ceremony is held as an act of the shrine's annual festival. This year again, the archers wowed not only the gods but also the crowd with their brilliant skills. - Shot in 1080p full HD with an iPhone 4S on Nov. 3rd, 2012
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That's wonderful!! And they gallop so fast!!
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This is really awesome!!!!! Traditional Japan archery so beautiful amazing!!!!!
Thank you so much for this amazing video!!
I Love Japan!!!!!
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So many butthurt Koreans upset about the past. The PAST! As in, not today? I find complaining about the past of what the Japanese had done is useless. You need to learnhow to forgive even if they won't say sorry! This is a beautiful art, and every culture has archery styles of their own, just because it looks similar, doesn't mean it's been stolen!
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I'm Japanese. Yabusame Tradition is very important and we must keep it to the future.
But speaking about mounted bowing, mongolian or Turkish people are the best, aren't they? Of course not Korean, I know. hahaha -
Monomaniac Korean always are haunted everywhere and shows there paranoia that Japanese had done something bad to them or such thing. But Korean almost didn't had any tradition to be stolen, hahaha
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Nips, give us back all tens of thousands of our valuable historical chronicles you had stolen from us during your illegal colonization of Korea, are currently hiding in the basement of Imperial library in Tokyo, and with witch you are currently imitating exactly from the Korean historical documents just like this one what you have named so called Nip Yabusame or somethig imitating exactly from our Korean horseback archery and horseback vaulting just like the ones you are copying here as if these are all your fucking culture! Shame on you, you lying Nip lowlife thief fuck!
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Nips are sour by having been Nuked by heroic Americans sometime ago. Since then their soul never rest in peace unless they revenge back to ths States since it has been traditional virtue under Nip bushido according to Nip that any descent Samurai must revenge back for their shame as they think they had been gotten the worst national shame by American! That's why they have been piling up enormous amount of high quality plutonium under the permission of naive American by the excuse of helping America if America is under Nuke attack from any enemy when in fact the Nips are the worst enemy of the States on the planet earth. But these sneaky Nip has been outstanding in hiding their sneaky scheme and pretending as if they are most good, most innocent and most kind when in fact they are demon itself. You can witness by all these enormous amont of hate filled U-tube videos toward other countries and cultures especially toward Koreans of which you see almost none from Korean because Korean feel it is no work for any descent human being unless they feel terribly provoked that's after a period of agonizing patience after patience. Hence with those secretly piled up plutonium Nip can make hundreds of thousands of Nuke bombs within a few days since they have such high Nuke technology unlike Korean of which ths States absolutely forbid Koreans ever think about developing Nuke for the defense of this helpless little country surrounded by all these threatening cruel Superpower devils or even processing an ounce of plutonium when in fact Korea has been surrounded by all these Nuke Superpowers including North Korea and most extremely potential Japan actually with tremendous amount of plutonium. Even just without Nukes but just with conventional weapons only, Korea just is no match to any surrounding Nuke superpower country. Anyway Nip also has ICBM technology with that Nip can strike the States at will anytime which the States provided them while the States absolutely reject in teaching Korea because of these sweet tongued sneaky Japanese meddling and ever discouraging Korea if Korea ever look interested in developing such thru the help of other Rocket superpowers. The real problem of Nip is that they not only have any empathy but also they never know what that means because they are basically stuck with their norrowmindedeness and cruelty of typical narrow island people. So they do not know why they had been nuked while they think that they are the victim of Nuclear racism since they think they had been nuked because they are yellar! Hence you can see two absolutely different moral level of two absolutely different people: one vile, cunning, distorting truth, sneaky, lying, dishonest, doubleminded, never trustworthy, tracherous, hysteric, most cruel hearted, never forgiving, extremely ethnocentric, full of hates, crafty, suicidal, slandering, always dead serious, gloomy, pessimistic, vengeful, teeth grinding, eyeball squeezing, tradtionally diaper wearing, uncivilized, ratlike, criminally elemented, barbaric, fish stinking, stinking takuang eating, all living in small dark filthy Nip pigsty, always trouble making, complex ridden, most malevolent, devilish Nip and the other most benevonent, so innocent, all forgiving, life loving, good hearted, cool, groovy, broadminded, always understanding, traditionally underpants wearing, cooperative, universal minded, friendly, always helping, simpleminded, loyal, honest, so kind, optimistic, full of sense of humour, sweet beef eating, mostly living in bright pleasant much larger House, seasoned, peace loving, angelic, brave Korean. However whatever Nip schemes in their heart Nip should know that we Koreans will be the first to punish them by what ever the mean we got may be even with Kimchi bomb for the purpose of educating these Island apes to make them come up to the level of human being if they ever scheme of retaliating back to the States since American are just different quality of human being compared to these cunning and vile criminal Nip devil who in fact are no human being at all in real nature and Americans are basically our blood brothers. If Nip feel sour about those facts they should know that every parents heart aches when they have to punish their children. Anyway we will take care of our Nip ape boys for their own good. Otherwise it's gonna be a short cut to hell for Nip if Nip keeps on insisting doing their wicked things as they have been doing since the beginning of human history! Hey Nip, this is no time for any more Nip bullshit. Just try to be good boys otherwise it’s goona be just too sore for you! You don't want such thing ever happen to you, do ya Nip? I’m scared that Nip might hate Korean to death for speaking out the fact! But someone has to!!! Even if Nip threatens to kil me I have to speak out truth since the truth is always right while lying is nothing more than devilish vile low life Nip!!
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This is what Samurai mostly did originally. They were more known for their archery rather than swords.
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I cantered when I did this at a camp, they gallop wow
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If you study under a true Yabusame Ryu..It could take up to 4 yrs to actually sit on a horse for real. You practice on a wooden mock up horse as a partner turns it by hand. Originally Samurai's who missed the target would have to commit seppuku at the end of the course..They changed this rule for too many good Samurai had committed suicide. The Takeda Ryu is one of the last remaining schools of Yabusame.
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actual samurai bows for combat were a lot different than modern yumi bows for kyudo and what not.
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in war those bows are not quite handy ;)
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I think I know basic things about it. But it must be interesting to learn it more deeply. :)
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Hehe okay. It has some great history with the samurai as well if that kind of history is enjoyable to you. ^_^ cheers
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I've never done. I'm gonna check out what yumi is like. Thank you for getting me interested.
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I dont know. Have you shot bow before? Its all about the poundage of the pull, depends on the bow probably.
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I wonder if I can handle them well though. :P
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It's never to late, can order them online I think.
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I've never tried yumi though I'm Japanese... What a pity!