I'm so in love with archery lately...

[janestarz]

From this website:
"From the fourth to the ninth century, close contacts between China and Japan had a great influence on Japanese archery, especially the Confucian belief that through a person's archery their true characters could be determined."
"Kyudo is a highly meditative martial art whose ultimate goals are Shin (Truth i.e. the ultimate reality), Zen (Goodness) and Bi (Beauty). When asked the question "What is Truth?" a master archer would pick up a bow and arrow and shoot it, without saying a word, allowing the level of mastery of the bow to serve as the gauge of the archer's progress along the "way" thereby showing the archer's knowledge of reality i.e. "Truth" itself."

A Japanese Longbow - Yumi - costs about ¥ 36000.--
They also feature Ya, sleek, not necessarily longer but shallower flights/feathers on the arrow. Let's see if we can copy those for next year's Drachenfest. Make about 50 arrows, with sleek flights, cheap. That would be cool.
Thanks to sneeuw_chan for these links. Let's see if they deliver in Europe *grin*

Also, I updated my website yesterday. And for some strange reason pasje threw me off her friends list.
Mom will be over for coffee later today. Whee!

Comments

[coen.livejournal.com]

if my archery skills say anything about my character, then I must be a lousy character and I miss all the time.

But then, I am not a Confusionist, but a Taoist. Yay for Lao-tse, boooh ConFu-tse!
(not that I know Lao-tse's opinion on archery)

[elektron.livejournal.com]

That's actually not that expensive... depending on how decent it is.