笠かさ懸がけ

noun

mounted archery; target shooting on horseback

Historical term for a Japanese martial art where archers shot at targets while riding horses. Practiced from the Kamakura period onward.

• 鎌かま倉くら時じ代だい、武ぶ士したちは笠かさ懸がけで弓ゆみの腕うでを競きそった。

  In the Kamakura period, warriors competed in archery skills through kasagake.

• 笠かさ懸がけは流鏑馬やぶさめと並ならぶ馬ば上じょう弓きゅう術じゅつの一ひとつです。

  Kasagake is one of the mounted archery disciplines alongside yabusame.