The 'Bow and arrow' retired from the status of major weapon in battlefields in the latter part of the Sengoku Period, but 'Yumiire' remained popular as a profession among Samurai so, that drawing a bow was considered to be a discipline of mind and body even during the peaceful Edo Period and various schools of Kyujutsu and ways of shooting developed.
戦国後期に「弓」が戦場の主戦力から後退するが、依然「弓射」は武士の表芸とされ武士の間での人気も高く、心身鍛練の道として泰平の江戸の世においても弓は引かれ弓術流派、射術は発展していく。