2008 年 13 巻 1 号 p. 31-47
As specific characteristics of Japanese archery I can mention the following: the practical quality; the religious quality; the artistic quality; the educational quality and the competitive quality.In paticular, in the pre-modern times the artistic and educational qualities are emphasized.
As a one-sided competitive form of Japanese archery,Dosha-archery became popular at around the 17th and 18th century.Dosha-archery cleared already a few hundred years ago many of the conditions and charactristics which modern sports are made up with,like:
① ensuring safety for human life
② parting from particular religions, ideas, and schools; and adopting instead a public and open competitive quality
③ having a democratic system and management
④ having equal opportunities in competitions and cotests
⑤ establishing competition regulations and standards for evaluation
⑥ quantifying of competitions and challenges to records
⑦ establishing rational training methods
Considering Dosha-archery in a number of ways dealing with modern Budo and sports such as, subdividing of competitive items and the problem of doping are meaningful and significant.