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English: It was also related with religion (Shinto, Buddhism, and folk beliefs) and the idea of 'michi' (way), forms a part of the concept of value and heart in the way of military arts such as zan-shin and the engi (writing about history) as in Shinto rituals or in the concept of values and hearts such as hare (noticeably cheerful and formal situations or such places) or shako-shin by a mixture of fortune telling or Shinto rituals and pleasure, and consists of Japanese culture.
Japanese: さらに宗教（神道・仏教・民間信仰）や「道」という概念と渾然一体となって武芸の残心という所作や神事としての縁起などの価値観や心、若しくは占いや神事と遊興が結びついてハレや射幸心（射倖心）といった価値観や心の一端を形成し、日本の文化を担っている。
English: In ancient times it was also called Oyumi (different from Taikyu of China in the sense of meaning and structure).
Japanese: 古くは大弓（おおゆみ）ともいった｛中国の大弓（たいきゅう）とは意味も構造も違う｝。
English: It was originally a long bow mainly made of bamboo as well as the arrow, and the position to set an arrow is on the string below the center.
Japanese: 本来は弓、矢ともに竹を主材としている丈（弓丈）の長い弓で矢をつがえる位置が弦の中心より下方にある。
English: This is described in "Gishi Wajin Den" (the first written record of Japan's commerce), which shows that it has been produced in the same form as the present type since ancient times.
Japanese: このことは『魏志倭人伝』に記述されており、古い時代からすでに現在に伝わる姿が完成されていたことがわかる。
English: This was a short bow which was also called koyumi, but it had a different form from those generally seen in Eurasia with a simple arc shape.
Japanese: 小弓（こゆみ）とも呼ばれ丈の短い弓であるが、ユーラーシア全般に見られた短弓とは、形状は違い弓は円弧を描くだけである。
English: It was used by kuge for pleasure during the Heian period and was used by common people for pleasure during the Edo period.
Japanese: 平安時代に公家が遊興として使い、その後、江戸時代には庶民の娯楽として使用された。
English: During the Heian period, there was another Yumiya called suzume koyumi (sparrow short bow, very short bow) which was used as a toy for children, and the name of suzume was regarded to show small things or children.
Japanese: 同じ平安時代には雀小弓（すずめこゆみ）といって子供の玩具としての弓矢があり、雀という名称は小さいことや子供を示すとされる。
English: In addition to these, there was a bow called azusayumi made of Japanese cherry birch and used for Shinto rituals and prayers by the Shinto priesthood (Shinto priest or miko - a shrine maiden).
Japanese: その他には、梓弓（あずさゆみ）といわれる梓の木で作られた弓があり、神職（神主、巫女）が神事や祈祷で使用する弓を指した。
English: There were various bows in size and shapes such as a short bow of maruki-yumi (bow made from a small sapling or tree limb, often catalpa wood, that had a centered grip), and long bows actually used for festivals and rituals and in the Shinto rituals of Oyumi-hajime (Honorable First Bow).
Japanese: 祭礼用の丸木弓の小弓や、御弓始めの神事などでは実際に射るものは長弓であり、大きさや形状は様々である。
English: Among azusayumi, used as a tool for magic by azusa-miko (shaman in Kuchiyose - spiritualism) was a short bow and she carried it around in a small bamboo trunk.
Japanese: 梓弓のなかで梓巫女（祈祷師、口寄せ）が呪術の道具として使用するものは小さな葛で持ち歩いたので小弓であった。
English: In Japan while crossbows and catapults were not used, there was a way to shoot an arrow without using a bow.
Japanese: 日本では洋弓銃（クロスボウ）や投石機（カタパルト）などは普及しなかったが、弓を使わず矢を飛ばす方法が存在する。
English: An arrow made assuming that it would be thrown as a weapon and a tool of pleasure (see the following description on Toku (Game of Pitch-Pot)).
Japanese: -武器や遊興の道具（下記投壺を参照）として、投げる事を前提に作られた矢。
English: As a weapon, Uchine, arrow feathers about 90 cm long, as long as a short spear, were attached to it.
Japanese: 武器としては打根（うちね）といって長さ三尺の小槍ほどの大きさで矢羽がついていた。
English: Moreover, there is a description in some Ninjutsu-sho (book of Ninjutsu) and a few genuine arrows still remain, but it is not sure to what degree they were actually used.
Japanese: また、忍者の流派によっては忍術書に記述があることや、道具として僅かだが実物も残っているが、実際にどの程度の利用があったかは定かではない。
English: A dart of blowgun was made of needle or thin bamboo which was processed to the shape of needle with arrow feathers made of animal hair or paper which processed in the shape of a circular cone.
Japanese: 構造は矢については針や針状に細長く加工した竹に動物の体毛や円錐に加工した紙の矢羽を矧いだものである。
English: The shape of the tube varried from an octangular prism or circular cylinder with long pieces of wood glued on which a spiraling groove was cut inside the bamboo processed evenly or one made of rolled Japanese paper coated inside and outside with urushi Japanese lacquer.
Japanese: 筒は木製で長尺の木に半円の溝を彫ったものを張り合わせた八角柱や円柱の筒や、竹の内側を均等に加工したものや和紙を丸めたものがあり、それぞれの筒の内や外に漆を塗ったものがある。
English: At present, some schools of Budo (martial arts) adopt blowguns as one type of training and a few people practice it as a new Budo.
Japanese: 現在では吹き矢を、武道の一環として取り入れる流派や新しい武道として、嗜む者も少数ながら存在する。
English: Used for hunting, games and the practice of Kyudo, and also used for Shinto rituals such as toshiya and hogu (a tool for capturing something or someone).
Japanese: 狩猟や競技・弓道の修練に用いられ後に通し矢などの神事や捕具にも用いられた。
English: It is said that since the arrow with Kabura made a particular wind roar when it was shot, it was used for signaling the start of a battle and for purging a noxious vapor.
Japanese: 鏑を付けた矢を射ると独特の風切り音を発するので、開戦の合図や邪気を祓う為に使用したといわれる。
English: The typical Yokyu is made from a willow tree, but some of them are made from the euonymus tree and are called mayumi.
Japanese: 本来は楊柳（ようりゅう）の木で出来ているが、真弓ともいい、檀（まゆみ）の木で出来ているものもある。
English: It was also 'yaire' and its image is seen on Haniwa (unglazed terra-cotta cylinders and hollow sculptures arranged on and around the tomb mounds - kofun) excavated from remains of the ancient times.
Japanese: 「矢入れ」ともいい、先史時代の遺跡から出土する埴輪に矢筒が象られている。
English: Since Yumiya had been important for kuge and samurai families in Japanese history, Yazutsu also had changed and segmentalized for ceremonies and for battles.
Japanese: 弓矢が日本の歴史の中で公家や武家にとって重要であったことから、矢筒も様々に変化し、儀礼用や戦いのためのものなど細分化した。
English: Especially in battle, it was improved as well as for Yumiya, so it can be thought of as a shadow hero, an arm to support Yumiya.
Japanese: とくに戦いにおいては、弓矢の改良に負けず劣らず改良され、弓矢を支える武具としての、陰の立役者ともいえるだろう。
English: Matoya (target practice) means a target and an arrow and also means an arrow which is shot at a target instead of an enemy or used in a game.
Japanese: 的矢は的と矢のことを指すが、敵や獲物ではなく的を対象とした矢のことでもある。
English: The word matoyumi refers to a bow used to shoot a target instead of the enemy or used as a game.
Japanese: 的弓は的と弓のことを指すが、敵や獲物ではなく的を対象とした弓のことでもある。
English: The place of improving Yumiya skills is called matoba, yumiba and shaba, and the place for gambling, managed by matoya, tends to be called yokyuba in the Kansai region while it is called yaba in the Kanto region.
Japanese: 弓矢の技術を高める場所は的場・弓場・射場といい、的屋（まとや）が営む、懸け物の遊技の場所を関西方面では楊弓場といい、関東方面では矢場という傾向にある。
English: One that imitated matoba and makiwara targets were generally used, although there were little differences.
Japanese: -一般的には多少の差異はあっても的場の的を模したものや巻藁を使用した。
English: Invented during the Edo period and had been seen in major cities, post-station towns and hot spring resorts until the Taisho period, but not be seen at present.
Japanese: -江戸時代に始まり、大正時代まで主要都市・宿場町や温泉街に現物として残っていたが、現在は見る事ができない。
English: Made of a wooden board on which an ogre, specter and a bad fellow were drawn, and it had a mechanism that moved depending on where the arrow hit.
Japanese: 鬼や妖怪や悪者の描かれた木の板の書割りで、仕掛けが施してあり、矢が当った場所により、絡繰が動く的である。
English: The present 'moving ogre' doll (oni-nakase, which is literally 'crying ogre') the target used for throwing a softball, roars and moves if a ball hits, can be traced back to the wind-up target.
Japanese: 現在では軟球などを投擲（とうてき）する射的の的として、当ると唸り声をあげて、「動く鬼の人形（鬼泣かせ）」にその名残が見て取れる。
English: A target hidden by a blindfold or cloth draped in front of the target.
Japanese: -目隠しまたは、的の手前に垂れ幕の布で隠す事で、位置が特定できない的。
English: The word yatara is considered to have come from gagaku (an ancient Japanese court dance and music) and this is only a phonetic equivalent, but the word 'metta-yatara' also means that 'you can hit it without marking it down if you shoot it alot.'
Japanese: 矢鱈の語源は雅楽にあるとされ、語源はただの当て字とされるが、「めったやたら」には、「目星をつけず数を打てば当る」という意味もある。
English: The word metta means 'many things disappear,' that is, having no clue, the word tara means plenty as the word tarafuku shows, and the word yatara can be understood as 'shooting many arrows,' which indicates that the origin of the word is in Yumiya.
Japanese: 滅多は「多くの物が無くなる」即ち見当が付かない事を指し、鱈（タラ）は鱈腹（たらふく）の鱈で多いと言う意味があり、矢鱈は「たくさんの矢を放つ」という意味にもとれ、語源が弓矢にある事を窺わせる。
English: The words which came from 'matoba for military arts' and 'matoba managed by matoya' are as follows.
Japanese: 「武芸のための的場」や「的屋が営む的場」から生まれた言葉として以下のようなものがる。
English: It is the changing feeling experienced by people who gamble caused by their changing expectations on the gamble.
Japanese: 賭け事の期待値を上下させる事により、賭博に参加する人々の変化する心情。
English: It is sometimes confused with 'to wo eru,' which comes from 'lottery,' although shako-shin is commonly seen among them.
Japanese: 「当を得る」と混同されるが、当を得るは射幸心は同じでも、「富くじ」から生まれた言葉である。
English: While the samurai culture put a value on the literary and military arts, court noble culture was characterized by elegance and pleasure, that is, hobbies and arts which were told as kacho-fugetsu (beauty of nature, the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics).
Japanese: 武家文化が文武を重きにおく事に対し、公家文化は花鳥風月と例えられる雅や遊び、いわゆる趣味や芸術である。
English: During the Edo period, common people became rich and began to enjoy an affluent life, promoting court noble culture among them as a culture or manners and customs.
Japanese: 江戸時代に庶民が豊かになったことから、余暇を楽しむゆとりができ、このことにより様々な公家文化が、庶民に普及し文化や風俗習慣になった。
English: Yumiya and similar target practicing games flourished during this period, seen in festivals and Ozashiki-Asobi (playing games with Geisha - Japanese professional female entertainers at a drinking party) in Japan in some different styles still now.
Japanese: 弓矢やそれに類する射的が隆盛を極め、形を変えながら日本の祭り文化やお座敷遊びに根ざしている。
English: It was an official Kyujutsu performed while seated, trying to reach conclusions with scores in a game.
Japanese: 座ったままで行う正式な弓術であり、対戦式で的に当った点数で勝敗を争った。
English: Later, during the Edo period it was enjoyed by common people as a target practicing game for gambling managed by matoya, and flourished during the latter part of the Edo period even as an undesirable aspect of entertainment and amusement.
Japanese: 後に江戸時代には、的屋（まとや）が営む懸け物（賭け事）の射的遊技として庶民に楽しまれ、江戸時代の後期には、隆盛を極め、好ましくない風俗の側面まで持つようになった。
English: It lasted until the Taisho period, but was regarded as an undesirable gamble or entertainment and amusement and was often regulated or forbidden.
Japanese: そして大正時代まで続いたといわれるが、江戸時代から大正に至るまで好ましくない賭博や風俗であるとされ、度々、規制や禁止がなされた。
English: During the Edo period, a target practicing game used for gambling was created originating from Yokyu of kuge and matsuriya (festival arrow) or matshriyumi.
Japanese: -公家の楊弓と祭り矢・祭り弓を起源とし、江戸時代には懸け物の射的遊技が出来た。
English: It ranged from large-sized Yokyu shops opened at festivals, sando (an approach to a temple) or precincts of a shrine on the days of festivities, Monzen-machi (a temple town), Toriimae-machi (town in front of torii - Shinto shrine gateway) and yukaku (red-light district) to small shops called yaba, where Yumiya was used to hit a target and prizes or money was given in accordance with the positions or types targets.
Japanese: 祭りや市や縁日が立つ寺社の参道や境内、門前町・鳥居前町・遊郭で出店や夜店として大規模な楊弓店、から小さな矢場といわれる小店があり、弓矢を使い的に当て、的の位置や種類により、商品や賞金が振舞われた。
English: An employee who gathered arrows at the yaba and yokyuba archery ranges, and while avoiding arrows shot by guests she gathered them as a kind of 'performance' to delight them.
Japanese: 江戸後期から矢場や楊弓場に現れた、矢を拾い集める係りの従業員であり、客の放つ矢を掻い潜って（かいくぐって）行うのが一つの「芸」であり、客も楽しんだ。
English: It is said that an arrow shot by a guest sometimes hit her so that she wore thick cotton on her buttocks to act as a shield.
Japanese: 時には客の放った矢が当る事もあり、防護として尻に厚い真綿を着けていたといわれる。
English: Because of the danger involved, a dangerous place became known as yaba, which led to 'yaba,i' slang for dangerous thing.
Japanese: 危険な役割から、危ない場所を矢場と言う様になり、危ない事を「矢場い・やばい」と表現し、隠語として使用した。
English: It is also called tsubouchi, a kind of dart devised in China, and target practice was conducted by two persons.
Japanese: -壺射ち（つぼうち）ともいい、中国で考案されたダーツの様なもので、二人対戦で行う射的。
English: The game of throwing an arrow into a pot, introduced during the Nara period and was performed among kuge.
Japanese: 投げ矢を壺に入れる遊戯であるが、奈良時代に伝わり平安時代にも公家の間で行われた。
English: It fell into disuse because its movement and rating were difficult, but was revived during the Edo period, and it is said that Tosenkyo, the Japanese game (throwing fans to target) was created based on Toko.
Japanese: 所作や採点が難しかったので廃れたが、江戸時代には再び楽しまれ、投壺が起源となり投扇興（とうせんきょう）が生まれたといわれる。
English: Among them, the blowgun was used for target practice in which a round wooden rolling target was put on a stage and was shot at by guests using a blowgun.
Japanese: 吹き矢もその一つで、売り台の上に円形の木製の回転する的をおき、客に吹き矢で回転する的を射抜かせる射的遊技であった。
English: The target was divided in a radial fashion and the prizes were different depending on where the dart hit.
Japanese: 的は放射状に区分けされていて、当った場所により景品の良し悪しがあった。
English: It is basically the same as today's drawing for a lottery using a bow gun and the draw for presents using darts in TV programs.
Japanese: 現在でもボウガンを使った宝くじ抽選会やテレビショウプログラムのダーツを使った景品抽選と基本的には同じである。
English: The expression 'a bow is mitsumono (three things)' means Kisha-Mitsumono and means 'these three were important as the accomplishments of samurai.'
Japanese: 「弓は三つ物」という言葉は騎射三物のことであり「武士（もののふ）の嗜み（たしなみ）としてこの三つが大切である」という意味を指す。
English: This is because samurai could not accomplish Kyujutsu without mastering equestrian art.
Japanese: これは弓術のみならず馬術も兼ね備えていなければ嗜む（たしなむ）ことが出来ないからである。
English: It means toshiya and a kind of Kyujutsu as a martial art, performed to tell someone's fortunein ancient times (upon which there are various theories).
Japanese: 通し矢のことで、古くは吉凶を占う行為（諸説存在）であり、武芸としては弓術とされる。
English: At present, it is performed mainly by people who accomplish Kyudo, and they practice it in order to participate in toshiya, which is an opportunity to show their ability.
Japanese: 現在では弓道を嗜む者が行う事がほとんどである事や、通し矢を行うための素養を培うのは、弓道と変わらず、その修練を試す場となっている。
English: In this festival, visitors to shrine scramble to obtain these blessed rice cakes after shooting the straw deer.
Japanese: 藁の鹿を射抜き終ると参拝者は、先を争ってご利益のある餅を奪い合うといった祭りである。
English: It is a Shinto ritual to tell a fortune about a good or bad harvest for the year, and Shinto priests of judge the fortune by the results of a target shot by azusayumi (a bow made of Japanese cherry birch).
Japanese: その土地の一年の豊作を占う神事で、神社の神主や神官が梓弓で的を射抜きその状態で吉凶を判断した。
English: It is also called miketsu, yumigito, a Shinto ritual of hikime or a Shinto ritual of busha (奉射).
Japanese: 御結（みけつ）・弓祈祷（ゆみぎとう）・蟇目（ひきめ）の神事、奉射（ぶしや）の神事ともいわれる。
English: The character is the same as the one mentioned above oyumi-hajime, but the arrow is shot by a representative person of the region such as fukuotoko (the luckiest man) instead of the Shinto priest.
Japanese: 上記の御弓始めと同じであるが、射手は神職ではなく、その地域を代表する福男などが行う。
English: This Shinto ritual which had been practiced since the Kamakura period, and was a celebration for when a samurai shot game for the first time.
Japanese: 鎌倉時代から続いた神事で、武家の男子が弓矢で初めて獲物を射止めたことを祝う神事。
English: In addition, the word 'yumitori' means samurai or Bushido (the code of the samurai) and a bow is given as an award.
Japanese: また「弓取り」の言葉の意味は侍や武士道を表し、その栄誉を称える行為として弓を与える。
English: Therefore, the sumo wrestler can be said to be yorishiro (object representative of a divine spirit) in a Shinto ritual as well as miko, and a person who excels in martial arts and as a samurai at the same time.
Japanese: この事から力士は巫女と同じく神事として神の依り代であり、同時に武芸に秀でた者または武士ともいえる。
English: This is a Kagura that the Emperor Chuai employed to get rid of the ogre named 'Jinrin' who had wings to fly in the sky by using Yumiya which had the spiritual power of the god, Amenowakahiko.
Japanese: 仲哀天皇（ちゅうあいてんのう）が、神である天若日子の霊力を持つ弓矢を使い、「塵輪」という黒雲に乗って天かける翼をもつ鬼を、退治した事に由来する神楽。
English: However, in medieval times when the class system of feudal society was established, farmers, artisans, and merchants were not allowed to learn about arms and samurai postures.
Japanese: 中世には身分制度や封建社会などが確立され、武具や武士に関わる所作を学ぶ事は、農工商にある者は許されなかった。
English: Although Yumiya and sumo were forbidden in some ages and some regions, they were allowed for common people to accomplish as one of the Shinto rituals.
Japanese: ただし弓矢と相撲は神事の一環として、禁止された時代や地域もあったが、庶民が嗜むことを許された。
English: Especially since matsuriya and matsuri yumi were performed actively as a Shinto ritual, many common people who might have been selected as an archer to tell fortunes in the region went to matoba and learned from the masters.
Japanese: 特に神事として祭り矢・祭り弓が盛んに行われたので、射手に選ばれれば、その地域の吉凶を左右する立場から、多くの庶民が的場に通い熟練者に師事を仰いだ。
English: However, some people succeeded in this stream and still accomplish Yumiya at matoba without any obsessiveness about achieving rank.
Japanese: しかし、現在でも少数ながらこの流れを汲み、段位などの取得にこだわらず、的場に通い弓矢を嗜む人々が存在する。
English: It is the short bow that spread in a broad area of Eurasia from East Asia to China and Mongolia and was mainly used by equestrian people.
Japanese: 弓の丈が短い弓で東アジアから中国、モンゴル、ユーラシア全般で普及し、主に騎馬民族が使用した。
English: In Japan there is only the classification of Daikyu long bow and short bow, and the word Tankyu was created because it was different from a short bow in the shape of an arc.
Japanese: 日本では大弓（長弓のこと）・小弓と言う分類しかなく、短弓は小弓とは弓の描く弧の形状が違うので、分類上において設けられた言葉である。
English: In the history of Chinese civilization, it is simply called a bow because there was no long bow.
Japanese: 中華文明圏では長弓（ロングボウ）が存在しないので、単に弓と呼称される。
English: It is a very unique bow in China which shoots a ball instead of an arrow, and it was used in the performance of Sangaku of Tang which was one of the origins of sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries) or for the pleasure of the common people, although it was originally a weapon.
Japanese: 中国のもので非常に珍しく、矢ではなく球を放つ弓で、元は武器であったが、日本の猿楽の起源の一つである唐の散楽の見世物や庶民の遊技として使われた。
English: In addition, since its principle and structure are similar to a slingshot, pachinko (Japanese pinball) is also called dankyu.
Japanese: また原理や構造がスリングショット（スリングショット）と近いことから、ぱちんこも弾弓と呼称される。
English: The two dankyu which seem to have been used for playing games are housed in the Shoso-in Treasure Repository in Nara Prefecture.
Japanese: 日本にも寄贈され、奈良県の正倉院には遊技用と思われる二張が保管されている。
English: It is also written as Taikyu (literally, 'long bow'), but is different from Oyumi (long bow) in Japan both from the viewpoint of meaning and structure.
Japanese: 大弓（たいきゅう）とも記述するが、日本の大弓（おおゆみ）とは意味も構造も違う物である。
English: It has almost the same structure of that of the crossbow in Western countries, and the resemblance is also pointed out.
Japanese: 構造は西洋のクロスボウとほとんど同じであり、同一性も指摘されている。
English: This is a large machine bow made in China which can shoot cannonballs and stones as well as arrows, and called a catapult in Western countries.
Japanese: 中国のもので矢の他に砲弾や石なども発射できる大型の機械弓で、西洋ではカタパルトと呼ばれる投石機のこと。
English: This is the Shodo made in China which can shoot cannonballs and stones as well as arrows, and especially refers to one fixed on a castle wall.
Japanese: 中国のもので、矢の他に砲弾や石も発射できる床弩のことであるが、特に城壁に固定してある物を指す。
English: It sometimes refers to the Yumiya used for an archery during an Olympic event, but the English word 'archery' means all target practice that uses Yumiya, so that yabusame is also expressed as archery in English-speaking countries.
Japanese: オリンピック競技としてのアーチェリーに使用される弓矢を示す場合もあるが、アーチェリーは弓矢を使った射的を全てを表す英単語であり、流鏑馬もアーチェリーと英語圏では表現される。
English: It is a kind of composite bow and has no clear distinction with Tankyu in the East regarding classification, and it is simply called a bow in the Chinese civilization.
Japanese: コンポジットボウに含まれ東洋の短弓と分類上の明確な区別はなく、中華文明圏では単に弓といわれる。
English: Japanese long bow and the long bow of Wales, the United Kingdom are included in this category.
Japanese: 日本の長弓（和弓）やイギリスのウェールズのロングボウがこれにあたる。
English: It needs an amount of strength to use it except for the Japanese bow, and since almost all of them are simple bows and are heavy it is said to have been used by foot soldiers.
Japanese: 和弓を除き、使いこなすには相当な腕力が必要であり、ほとんどが単弓で弓丈が長いことから重いため、弓歩兵が使用したといわれる。
English: The long bow is so particular it can hardly be seen in areas other than Japan.
Japanese: 長弓（ロングボウ）は日本以外では、ほとんど見る事が出来ない、珍しい物である。
English: It had a fixed style with a big bow gun, a shield and stepladder.
Japanese: 形状としては大型の洋弓銃に盾と脚立を備え固定式にしたものとなっている。
English: (Since it did not originate from Yumiya, the catapult of this section does not include the rock-throwing machine with a rope called a sling, which is used for fight festivals or leading livestock (llama or sheep) of depasturage by the aborigines in Peru or the people who are considered to be descendants of the Inca, and also not include the one which is called a slingshot or a pachinko)
Japanese: （ペルーの先住民またはインカの末裔とされる人々が喧嘩祭りや、放牧畜産で家畜（リャマやヒツジ）を誘導する為の、紐を使ったスリングと呼ばれる投石器や、いわゆるパチンコとも呼称されるスリングショットと呼ばれる投石器は、弓矢を起源としない為、この項目の趣旨の投石器ではない）
English: In Japan it is a design on Haniwa, and a primitive man discovered in Europe and called the iceman also had a quiver.
Japanese: 日本では埴輪に象られているが、ヨーロッパで発見された古代人類の通称アイスマンといわれる人も、矢筒を携帯していた。
English: Quivers, as well as Yumiya, can be seen all over the world except with the Aborigine in Australia.
Japanese: 弓矢もオーストラリアのアボリジニを除き、世界中で普遍的なものでもあるが、矢筒も同様であると考えられる。
English: They were set on a horse with a belt or carried on ones' back tied with a rope on the hip or back, arrows were carried in it.
Japanese: 馬にベルトを用いて括りつけたり、腰や背に紐を通し背負ったりして矢を収納し携帯した。
English: Although the gods with Yumiya are also seen in Esoteric Buddhism and Buddhism as well as Hinduism, they are gods originating from Hinduism or mixed with gods of Hinduism.
Japanese: ヒンドゥー教と同様に密教・仏教にも弓矢を持つ神々が存在するが、起源はヒンドゥー教であり、またはヒンドゥー教の神と習合させた神である。
English: There are some common points between the gods with Yumiya in Greek myths and the gods with Yumiya in Hinduism.
Japanese: ギリシャ神話の弓矢を持つ神々とヒンドゥー教の弓矢を持つ神々は幾つかの共通点がある。
English: In Japan, there is one word, 'Yumiya-shin' (the god of the bow and arrow), which means Emperor Ojin (Hachimanshin - God of War).
Japanese: 日本においては弓矢の神ではなく「弓矢神」という一つの単語になっていて、応神天皇（八幡神）のことでもある。
English: The number of Hachiman shrines that enshrine the Emperor Ojin is the second largest after the Inari-jinja Shrines, and they have been worshipped broadly.
Japanese: 応神天皇を祀っている八幡神社の数は、稲荷神社に次いで全国第２位であり、広く信仰されてきた。
English: In addition, the word 'Hachiman' has been historically used when people wish for good luck on Yumiya, fate, or odds.
Japanese: また弓矢や運命や確率に関わり幸運を願う時には「八幡」という言葉が使われてきた歴史がある。
English: The word Hachiman includes both the meaning of prayer and Yumiya and is the origin of the word shako-shin.
Japanese: 八幡は祈願と弓矢の意味が一体となす言葉でもあり、射幸心という言葉の語源となった事柄である。
English: In addition, Hachimanshin (God of War) has been also known as Hachiman Daibosatsu (Great Bodhisattava Hachiman) and can be seen in the common expression, 'Namuhachiman' (A Shinto God of War).
Japanese: また八幡神は八幡大菩薩としても、夙（つと）に知られ、「南無八幡」と言う慣用句からも窺い知る事ができる。
English: However, the common people continued to worship Hachiman Daibosatsu and the word 'Hachiman Daibosatsu' has often been used in situations related with shako-shin still now.
Japanese: だが、庶民は八幡大菩薩を変らず信仰し、射幸心に係わる物事において現在でも、八幡大菩薩を用いて表現される事は多い。
English: In Greek myths there are the stories related with Yumiya of Apollo, Artemis, and Eros.
Japanese: この中でアポローン、アルテミス、エロースのそれぞれの弓矢が齎す物語が描かれている。
English: The tale of the tragic love between Apollo and Daphne which was triggered by Eros's Yumiya is the origin of the daphne crown which is given to the winner at the Olympic games.
Japanese: エロースの弓矢が発端となり、アポローンとダプネーが織成す悲恋が、オリンピックの勝者への月桂樹の冠（かんむり）の贈呈の謂れ（いわれ）となっている。
English: Apollo is a son between Zeus and Leto and is the twin brother of Artemis, and he is the god of Yumiya with 'a golden arrow' because he is the sun god.
Japanese: アポローンとはゼウスとレートーの子でアルテミスとは双子であり、太陽の神でもある事から「金の矢」を持つ弓矢の神である。
English: Artemis is the son between Zeus and Leto and is the twin brother of Apollo, and he is the god of Yumiya with 'a silver arrow' because he is the moon god.
Japanese: -アルテミスとはゼウスとレートーの子でとはアポローンとは双子であり、月の神でもある事から「銀の矢」を持つ弓矢の神である。
English: When someone is shot with the golden arrowhead, that person falls in love with a person who is shot with a lead arrowhead, the person shot by a lead arrowhead can not love the person who is shot by a golden arrowhead.
Japanese: 金の鏃の矢で射抜かれた者は鉛の鏃の矢に射抜かれた者に恋焦がれ、鉛の鏃の矢で射抜かれた者は金の鏃の矢に射抜かれた者を愛する事は出来ない、という効果を持つ。
English: Cupid is the god with 'Yumiya for love' to help the success of love, who originates from Eros and is imagined to be an angel.
Japanese: -クピードーとはエロースが元になり、天使(通用)のようなイメージに転化され、恋愛成就の手助けをする、「恋の弓矢」を持つ神。