A FINE YUMIDAI [ARCHERY SET]

EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

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A FINE YUMIDAI [ARCHERY SET]
Edo Period (Late 18th/early 19th Century)
The matching pair of bows in black lacquer, one wrapped at intervals with red lacquered bamboo, the other with natural bamboo, within the strung bows a double quiver in metal and gilt leather with three crests of the Maru ni Amagasaki Fuji family, this part, decorated with a repeated pattern, containing two sets of ten arrows, with four protective cases in gilt leather, decorated with crests of the Maru ni Amagasaki Fuji family, some old damage
Overall 90in. (228.6cm.) high

拍品專文

Once a powerful weapon for the ancient warrior in the Kamakura period (1185-1336), archery was a requisite skill for all high ranking warriors. It was relegated by the end of the Muromachi period (1336-1573) to a secondary status by the arrival of large units of foot soldiers. It remained part of the martial training of senior samurai throughout the Edo period (1615-1868).