Ogasawara Ryu Kyujutsu

The Ogasawara Ryu demonstrating Kyujutsu at Atsuta Jingu 44th Annual Taikai, May 22nd, 2005. This looks strange, but the target is close to the practicioner because of the danger involved in shooting live arrows indoors and not on a designated range.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Ogasawara
• Ryu
• Kyujutsu
• bow
• arrow
• kyudo

[bodhranmaster]

Sweet Jesus..don't put the target too far away!

[mekugi]

LOL....it's in a shrine community center. It's that close for spectator safety.

[lagook]

hey mate does anyone study kyujutsu as in the art of using the bow to kill in hunting or war anymore?

or can you only find kyudo style japense archery?

[mekugi]

Not like this. This ryu does have some impressive horseback stuff....but most of it is like this. Takes a while to get used to it...makes me sleepy once in a while...

[Baihu108]

Seems that there isn't anyone who can actually use a bow in Japan any more? In the past the idea was to be both internally & external focused. At least some contemporary practitioners of Manchu archery keep the idea of focusing the mind & body together as one so that the arrow hits where the mind is focused, the target.

[bullmeecham]

JenKat, early aiki & aiki-jutsu are similar in that both were brutal arts. Just check the the whole history of O'Sensei's life - read the comments of his very first students.

[kenninast]

Not entirely true. If you train Aikidô the original way, when Oo Sensei just had founded the style, you train hard, brutal and nasty. Look up Yoshinkan to see how the original Aikidô looks like.

The fluffy vanilla aikidô was a creation of Oo Sensei when he got older.

[onkelulf]

only thing i know is that "do" means something like "sport" and "jutsu" means "art". but I am not entirely sure!

[JenKatZen]

"kyu do" would translate as "the way of the bow", practiced as a philosophical and spiritual discipline.

"kyu jutsu" would translate as "the technique of he bow", a purely technical practice of skill.

And, to Ketsan...

Vicious, brutal and nasty Aikido? I've never heard of such a thing. You must hang around some unusual people.

[neomauresque]

if is brutal and Nasty it should be something else , cos Aikido is a way of Harmony. according to the founder ! Thanks any way

[ketsan]

Depends on the Aikido school. Some Aikido schools are totally ineffective and have no interest in being effective. They're like kyudo, or more like kyudo since I suppose a kyudoka with a bow is still kinda deadly.

Then there are Aikido schools which are vicious, brutal and nasty. They're more like kyujutsu.

[neomauresque]

Talk to me ! It depends on what ?

[ketsan]

Maybe, depends on the Aikido school. :p

[neomauresque]

Just like Aikido and Aikijutsu ?