Toshiya - Pretty Japanese Girls in Kimono doing Kyudo (Japanese Archery) in Kyoto

http://therovingroninreport.blogspot.com/2012/01/toshiya-pretty-japanese-girl...
Toshiya is a centuries old tradition close to New Year's where archers come to test their mettle at Sanjusangendo Temple in Kyoto. Over 2000 archers go there many of them young girls in kimono and hakama celebrating their coming of age ceremonies.

In the past archers would try to see how many arrows they could shoot in a 24-hour period or how many times they could hit the target out of a set number of arrows. Today because of the huge number of participants, each archer generally shoots about 2 arrows at targets 60 meters away. The main attraction is the number of pretty girls in their beautiful kimono.

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Comedy

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• Japan
• kyudo
• archery
• Japanese girls
• kimono
• Kyoto
• Japanese archery
• Sanjusangendo
• pretty
• toshiya
• japanese culture
• Kyūdō

[lensonjapan]

I am impressed, you must have spent quite some time there to get these much shooting angles.

[RoninDave]

@lensonjapan oh, yeah, you can say that again! I was there for most of the day in fact having to stand on my tippy-toes for the close-ups because I stupidly left my monopod at home

[yastunt]

Thanks for uploading! I didnt know it goes back 400 years.

[RoninDave]

@yastunt shooting at Sanjusangendo goes back 400 years but this is a much more modern version with all the archers. Before it was more competitive with those seeing who could shoot as many arrows as possible for 24 hours or how many target hits they could get.

[2244P]

Those must be graduation outfits the women were wearing if I'm not mistaken.

[YouCanLiive]

5:32

[KuroiNeko2bz]

3:58 game boy

[Jimaera]

Never seen so many cute girls together in one place doing something so cool, lol. That ninja dog is pure win. Great video as always, Dave, this seems like a fun event to watch!

[someeliguy]

This is so cool! Wish we had something like this in america!

[solidbeliefs]

the coolest video i have ever seen.



[7Dante7]

Thanks again Dave!

[brollicon]

cool dog at 5:43

[wingwaabuddha]

archery and women my favorite things

[tanukisan666]

"Hey, baby, why don't you and me grab your yumi and head on back to my place..." (: