anchor: As part of the mid-September festival at this shrine, there is a spectacular tournament of archery on horseback (yabusame), in which contestants dressed in the costume of Kamakura-period huntsmen must hit a series of three small wooden targets as they come down a narrow course at full gallop.
positive: Horseback archery, or yabusame, has the contestants dress in the attire of Kamakura-age huntsmen.
negative: The course the yabusame contestants but navigate is a wide open field, with no narrow points, to aid in the test of long-distance archery.