It has been used in practice for kasagake (horseback archery competition), yabusame (archery on horseback), inuoumono (dog-hunting event, skill of archery) since ancient times, and it was used as a target arrow in early times.
古くから笠懸、流鏑馬、犬追物など稽古用に使用され、初期の頃は的矢としても用いられた。