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FOREWORD
WHEN I ARRIVED IN JAPAN I had already every intention of studying the archery of Japan, for I had long been a devotee of the English long bow at home. My first few months in Japan passed busily without my doing anything about it, and it was not until May of that year that I went to the Butokuden, the Hall of Martial Virtue, next to the Heian Shrine in Kyoto to see the archery there. I had been in Peking during April for a short visit and had there visited the famous Bow and Arrow street where I acquired several Chinese bows. This really started me on my investigations into Oriental archery so that when I got back to Kyoto I made a point of visiting the Hall of Martial Virtue at once.
On the day of my first visit I was allowed to come in and sit in the hall from which the archers shoot and watch the shooting going on, as tourists are allowed to do. Since I spoke Japanese I was soon busy asking questions and answering those that they asked me concerning American archery. But when I said that I would like to learn to shoot Japanese style, there was a general shaking of heads. A foreigner might try, of course, but the consensus seemed to be that he wouldn't get far!