It originates from matsuriya and matsuriyumi, for in the Edo period common people enjoyed, as superstition, aiming at targets with a bow and arrows and were given prizes and prize money according to the position and type of targets on an approach to the temple where a fair or festival was held and at stands and yomise (night stall) in temple grounds and Monzen-machi.
-祭り矢・祭り弓を起源とし、江戸時代には市や縁日が立つ参道や境内、門前町で出店や夜店として、弓矢を使い的に当て、的の位置や種類により、商品や賞金が振舞われ、庶民はこれを縁起担ぎとして楽しんだ。