The sport of Yabusame dates back over 800 years, when samurai would practice it. KAMAKURA, Japan, May 13, 2010 — -- Mounted on galloping horses, archers race full speed down a narrow dirt path.

Ogasawara Kiyomoto is heir to a school of samurai mounted archery, yabusame, and etiquette that stretches back over 800 years. Today, he teaches these ancient arts under the supervision of his father ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELIZABETH JACKSON: The Japanese tradition of horseback archery or yabusame goes back almost 1,000 years ...

Carey Norland shoots a target off of Hokkaido horse Tobi at Yabusame World Championships. Photo by Katsuhiko Sunawatari. “I think I loved horses before I was even conscious,” says Carey Norland, a ...

A special exhibition of horseback archery, known as yabusame, will be held on Sept 19 at Samukawa Jinja in Samukawa-machi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept 19. The local tradition of yabusame had been ...

The Japan Equestrian Archery Association will hold a yabusame event in Kamakura on Monday, September 23. Yabusame, part of Japan’s traditional culture, is a practice in which archers shoot through ...

Japan is home to some of the oldest traditions and rituals in the world. On November 3, the country celebrated its national Culture Day, with locals participating in parades, ceremonies, and a sacred ...

Yabusame, also known as traditional Japanese horseback archery, has drawn admiration and curiosity at the Ethnosport Cultural Festival in Istanbul. Organized by the World Ethnosports Federation and ...

What are those peculiar scarecrow figures, lolling about the villages of the Chugoku Mountains? Is that a man fishing from a bridge? A couple leaning against a railing? A whole family in a field? Some ...

KYOTO -- The "yabusame" mounted archery ritual was held at a shrine here in Japan's ancient capital on May 3 for the first time in three years. The event was held at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto's Sakyo ...