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Yatate literally means "quiver".The name comes from the practice of early bushi who kept ink stones inside their quivers.. Japanese writing was traditionally done using the writing set inspired from China: an inking stone, a small stick of solid ink (which is turned to usable liquid ink by grinding on the inking stone and watering), and brushes.
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.
A stone box grave is a coffin of stone slabs arranged in a rectangular shape, into which a deceased individual was placed. Common materials used for construction of the graves were limestone and shale, both varieties of stone which naturally break into slab-like shapes. The materials for the bottom of the graves often varies.
An unusually small crossbow bolt with a tapered "waist" shaft section and rear skirt compared to a 1 euro cent coin. A bolt or quarrel is a dart-like projectile used by crossbows. [1]
In archeology, a cist (/ ˈ k ɪ s t /; also kist / ˈ k ɪ s t /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek: κίστη, Middle Welsh Kist or Germanic Kiste) or cist grave is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead. In some ways, it is similar to the deeper shaft tomb. Examples occur across Europe and in the Middle ...
Scythian golden gorytos, Melitopol kurgan, 340-320 BCE Gorytos from tomb of Philip II of Macedon, Vergina, Greece. 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]
A drawing from the Catalog of the Royal Armoury of Madrid by the medievalist Achille Jubinal in the 19th century. The original specimen was destroyed by a fire in 1884. The maquahuitl (Classical Nahuatl: māccuahuitl, other orthographic variants include mākkwawitl and mācquahuitl; plural māccuahuimeh), [4] a type of macana, was a common weapon used by the Aztec military forces and other ...