The Importance of Japanese Etiquette in Japanese Archery

Japanese archery has a lot of roles or habits in doing Japanese archery.

The reason of that is Japanese archery is originally the way of training samurai's maind and body. So it has the aspects of etiquette.

I think that the most remarkable difference between Japanese archery and archery is it has the mind of etiquette or not.

In other word, Japanese archery is not only sport, but also the way of training own mind and body so far.

For example, almost all of Japanese archery group do a formality in the beginning and end of everyday practice. And this has the respect for teacher and god of archery, that Japanese people has believed for long time.