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Kanjuro Shibata XX
On-yumishi Kanjuro Shibata XX (御弓師 二十代 柴田 勘十郎 "Shibata Kanjūrō" born 1921 in Kyoto, Japan, died on 21 October 2013 in Boulder, United States) was twentieth in a line of master bowmakers and a "kyūdō" teacher of the "Heki Ryū Bishū Chikurin-ha" (日置流尾州竹林派) tradition. Beginning in 1980, Shibata founded over 25 "kyūdōjō" in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Career.
Shibata served as the Bowmaker to the Emperor of Japan
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