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.
In the Kamakura period, warriors competed in archery skills through kasagake.
Kasagake is one of the mounted archery disciplines alongside yabusame.
Standard kanji spelling for this historical term.
Kana spelling, useful for learners or when the kanji are obscure.
Variant spelling with okurigana; less common but still encountered.
The name combines 笠, “hat,” and 懸, “shooting on horseback”; the sport is traditionally said to have begun with a hat used as an archery target.