The Yabusame Festival in Tokyo's Sumida Park is an impressive display of horseback archery, a traditional Japanese sport from Edo times. The fiendishly difficult activity sees jockeys in samurai costumes shoot arrows at a target as they gallop past.
The spectacular sport was originally practised to celebrate New Year in the Edo period. Any archer to hit three targets wins a prize. There is also a costumed parade from Denpo-in Temple to Sumida Park on the same day.
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