yoshitsune the legend grows stronger

now the nhk taiga drama is based on the story of yoshitsune.for the
first time in many years a lot of japanese where really intrested
again in watching what they call national tv program.
now the are in the episode´s of the battle clashes between the taira
and genji.now people are getting dissatisfied because it becomes
really fictionary.in all the story´s i read about these myth i never
ever read what is making a lot of japanese talk about.
the death of yoshitsune and his grave.
the takeda´s are related to the genji and still today they have many
schools where you can practice their old traditional war
diciplines.one speciality is the riding bowman.at full speed they
fire their bows on targets while they are riding on special equal
stepping horses.
these horses are being mentioned in european historybooks on the
reason why the european knights where unable to stop the mongolian
invasion.
strangely it is very common in japan that people think that
yoshitsune went to the country with the great rivers(china).it is
also weird that the mongolians only had two great leaders and that
genghis has the same meaning as yoshitsune in japanese.the japanese
believe that genghis was yoshitsune and all the above can piont out
it could be true. it could also explain why and how the mongolians
knew how to invade japan and knew the locations to land.i would like
to know what you think or heard about this?????

While the Takeda ryu is one of the last groups practicing yabusame
(mounted archery), the horse information is incorrect. Native japanese
horses have become extremely rare (one breed is down to 1 remaining
stallion). Almost all yabusame today is practiced with retired thoroghbreds
as they are more readily avaiable. The thoroughbreds being bigger (and
faster) while the course has been maintained at the traditional length is ,
IMO, the reason one rarely sees multiple hits at yabusame demos.

M.J.Peters

>the takeda�s are related to the genji and still today they have many
>schools where you can practice their old traditional war
>diciplines.one speciality is the riding bowman.at full speed they
>fire their bows on targets while they are riding on special equal
>stepping horses.
>these horses are being mentioned in european historybooks on the
>reason why the european knights where unable to stop the mongolian
>invasion.

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