These were women who, in the late Edo-Period, worked in the yaba owned by matoya, picking up arrows shot by customers from the ground and running through the flying arrows which was considered as a kind of show.
-江戸後期には的屋（まとや）が営む矢場に登場した女性で、客の放つ矢を掻い潜りながら、的に刺さった矢や落ちている矢を拾い集め、舞う様に矢の飛び交う中を駆け回るのが、一つの芸であった。