Famous People of Japanese Archery and Their Achievements

First, I introduce the person who learned about Japanese thinking and "Kyudo" about 80 years ago.

He is "Eugen Herrigel", the German philosopher. His achievement is the introduction to Europe of the Japanese thinking based on the Buddhism and ancient belief of Japanese.
He went Touhoku University as the teacher of philosophy. And the interested in Japanese and Japanese people. He try to understand Japanese culture. And he let his wife learn Japanese picture and flower arrangement. At first, he felt it hard for master the all thinking of Japanese as the　Westerner. But he carry on learning about Japan and Japanese archery, at last, he was given the fifth rank of the Japanese archery by his teacher.

Second, I introduce Herrigel's teacher, Kenzo Awa. He is the one of the most famous Japanese archery player.

He thought that Japanese archery should be the way to train oneself and the most important thing of Japanese archery is not the technique to hitting.
Herrigel thought it unreasonable, because Kenzo can make arrow hitting but for not aiming the target.
This means that Kenzo made his mind calm and did the really same way to drew bow.

I think this is the last goal of doing Japanese archery.