２．HIstory of kyudo

Through what kind of process did generating of bow and arrows occur in which time in the developmental process of human-beings culture? It is not certain. However, in order that the primitive man probably been hungry at the primitive age may take the thing in the place which is not accessible, a certain elasticity is used. It is supposed whether it was invented as intellectual work of flying a thing. Clothes and gastronomic culture become rich by generating of bow and arrows, and gastronomic culture must have progressed markedly especially.

After rice crop introducing in Japan, it will be said that this rice crop brings about an economic big change, and produces and stores food, a paddy field is needed, and the storage warehouse of unhulled rice is also needed. The difference of wealth and poverty arises there inevitably with formation of wealth, and vast land is [ place with sufficient location ] needed for it, a battle broke out in every place generating of dispute of a boundary line, expansion of power, a village, etc., generating of a small country, and in the motion ..., bow and arrows were used as arms, the bow of the ceremony to God and the bow as arms for a battle are large, and the bow was divided in the two directions here. The bow of the worship became the Ogasawara school and the Heki school where the bow of a battle makes the Heki Dansei the origin, and has continued till today. The work was polished and it was called archery. The archery in a battle says a samurai's symbol as "bow picking" by a samurai's required subject till the Edo period.

In it, a gun descends, it takes for prevailing, the value as arms of bow and arrows falls, and it has only become a way of a samurai's pursuit of knowledge. In the Edo last stage, the "matter of archery top" in the government was abolished, and traditional archery culture was greatly obliged to a decline by continuing Restoration of the Imperial rule for Keio three years.

Thus, while the public kyudo place disappeared, the life and traditional culture of Japanese kyudo were maintained by the activity of the earnest archer who tries to succeed correctly the tradition from archery ancient times, such as opening a private kyudo place on the other hand.

The government encouraged the training of the martial art to people strongly as the war situation of the Pacific War drew near, but people kept away from kyudo in the last stage the end [ war ]. The feeling over national martial art had a very severe thing from the reaction over the martial art strict enforcement which should say after the end of the war also as a national policy prewar days - during the war.