Yabusame
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Yabusame is a type of mounted archery in traditional Japanese archery. An archer on a running horse shoots three special "turnip-headed" arrows successively at three wooden targets.
Yabusame archer on horseback
Yabusame archer takes aim on the second target.
Yabusame archer wearing traditional 13th century clothing
Yabusame demonstrated for United States president George W. Bush at the Meiji Shrine
Mounted archery
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Mounted archery is a form of archery that involves shooting arrows while on horseback. A horse archer is a person who does mounted archery. Archery has occasionally been used from the backs of other r
Yabusame
…Yabusame (流鏑馬) is a type of mounted archery in traditional Japanese archery. An archer on a running horse shoots three special "turnip-headed" arrows (Kabura-ya) successively at three wooden…
Mounted archery in Tibet.
A Timurid drawing of an Ilkhanid horse archer. Signed (lower right) Muhammad ibn Mahmudshah al-Khayyam Iran, early 15th century. Ink and gold on paper.
Assyrian relief of a mounted archer
![Parthian horse archer shooting at full gallop, undated relief[clarification needed] at the Palazzo Madama, Turin.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/ParthianHorseman.jpg/500px-ParthianHorseman.jpg)
Parthian horse archer shooting at full gallop, undated relief[clarification needed] at the Palazzo Madama, Turin.