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Kyudo or Kyūdō (弓道?), literally meaning "way of the bow", is the Japanese art of archery. It is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and practitioners are known as kyudoka (弓道家?). It is estimated that there are approximately half a million practitioners of kyudo today.[citation needed] In 2005 the International Kyudo Federation had 132,760 graded members,[1] but in addition to this kyudo is taught at Japanese schools and some traditions refrain from federation membership.
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