Born in the festival culture that flourished in the Edo period, karakuri mato was a target for an arrow (or a blowgun dart), whose painted board had a device that made a comical movement when the archer shot it appropriately.
-江戸時代に隆盛を極めた祭り文化により、市や縁日や温泉場で行われた弓矢や吹き矢の射的の的で、板でできた書割りで仕掛けが施してあり、当たった場所により的の書割りが動いた。