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Three quivers. A quiver is a container for holding arrows or bolts. It can be carried on an archer's body, the bow, or the ground, depending on the type of shooting and the archer's personal preference. Quivers were traditionally made of leather, wood, furs, and other natural materials, but are now often made of metal or plastic.
Yebira, Ebira and Shiko (箙, lit. the "[Japanese] Quiver (of Arrows)") are types of quiver used in Japanese archery. The quiver is unusual in that in some cases, it may have open sides, while the arrows are held in the quiver by the tips which sit on a rest at the base of the ebira, and a rib that composes the upper part and keeps them in place.
Yazutsu (矢筒, lit. the "[Japanese] Arrow Barrel") or Yadzutsu is a type of arrow quiver used in kyūdō, Japanese archery, [1] using the Japanese longbow, the Yumi.It is generally cylindrical in shape, and zippered at the top, and appears something like a cylindrical holder of plans.
In English archery, the male feather, from a cock, is used on the outside of the arrow, while the other two stabilizing feathers are from a female, or hen. Traditional archery lore about feather curvature is that a right handed archer should shoot a right winged feather and right handed helical, and a left handed archer should use the opposite.
Ya are normally kept in a cylindrical quiver, called a Yazutsu (矢筒, lit. "[Japanese] Arrow Barrel"), with ceremonial and traditional archers using the Yebira (箙, lit. the "[Japanese] Quiver (of Arrows)"). A three-fingered glove, or mitsugake. The kyūdō archer wears a glove on the right hand, called a Yugake (弽, lit. "Yumi gloves").
Traditionally this is a quiver on the right thigh, but it may also be through a belt, a sash, a saddle quiver or even held in a boot or arm quiver. The first competition is a single shot to the side. The track is 90 metres (300 ft) long (as in the Hungarian method) but carries only one target set back around 5–10m from the track.
A gorytos (Ancient Greek: γωρυτός, pl. γωρυτοί, Latin: gorytus) is a type of leather bow-case for a short composite bow used by the Scythians in classical antiquity. [1] They are a combination of bow case and quiver in one, and are worn on the archer's left hip with the opening tilted rearward.
Today, several Arab archery clubs and societies exist, some of which practice traditional Arab archery while others use Western styles in sport competitions and hunting. The main organization is FATA , or the "Fédération Arabe de Tir à L'Arc" of Lebanon , which is a member of the World Archery Federation.