Asian Traditional Archery Research Network (ATARN)
Asian Archery Bibliography
Please add to this bibliography any useful books, articles or INTERNET links. Please send me the details and I shall up-date the table below.
| Author | Title |
Publisher/Periodical |
Date |
ISBN/Periodical Issue |
| Acker, William R.B., Acker, Joseph | Kyudo : The Japanese Art of Archery | Charles E Tuttle Co; | 1998 | ISBN 0804821097 |
| Alex, Wayne and Menes, G. | The Omnogov
Bow (Mongolian bow archaeology) |
Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1995 | JSAA Vol. 38 p. 71 |
| Boie, Achim & Bader, HD | Bows Used by the Huns | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1995 | JSAA Vol. 38 p.28 |
| Deprospero, Dan, et al | Illuminated Spirit : Conversations With a Kyudo Master | Kodansha International; | 1997 | ISBN 477001970X |
| Duvernay, Thomas | The Way of the Bow. (Korean Archery) | Instinctive Archer Magazine | 1996 | Spring 1996 page 14. |
| Dwyer, Bede | The Closed
Quiver (Asian quiver designs) |
Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1998 | JSAA Vol. 41 p.81 |
| Dwyer, Bede | Early Archers' Rings | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1997 | JSAA Vol. 40 p.62 |
| Dwyer, Bede | A Warring States Repeating Crossbow | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1996 | JSAA Vol. 39 p.62 |
| Elmy, Douglas | Steel Bows in India | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1969 | JSAA Vol. 12 |
| Elmy, Douglas | The Aboriginal Archery of India | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1998 | JSAA Vol. 41 p.46 |
| Elmy, Douglas | Oriental Hinged and Take-Apart Bows | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1989 | JSAA Vol. 32 p.24 |
| Elmy, Douglas | Some Notes on Korean Archery | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1989 | JSAA Vol. 32 p.59 |
| Elmy, Douglas | Sri Lankan Archery | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 2000 | JSAA Vol 43 p. 49 |
| Elmy, Douglas & D. Wood | Present-day Traditional Korean Archery | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 2000 | JSAA Vol 43 p. 39 |
| Faris, Nabih Amin; Elmer, Robert Potter | Arab Archery | Princeton University Press | 1945 | - |
| Forke | The Chinese Crossbow | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1986 | JSAA Vol. 29 p.28 |
| Gibson, Geoffrey | Archery in the Andaman Islands | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1986 | JSAA Vol. 29 p.60 |
| Grayson, Charles E | Ainu Archery | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1986 | JSAA Vol. 29 p.52 |
| Hein, Joachim | Bogenhandwerk und Bogensport bei den Osmanen | Der Islam |
1925, 1926 | Der Islam, vol.14, 1925, p.289-360 and vol.15, 1926, p.233-294. |
| Herrigel, Eugen | Zen in the Art of Archery | Random House | 1999 | ISBN 0375705090 |
| Hickman, C.N. | Ancient composite bows | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1959 | JSAA Vol. 2 |
| Hoff, Feliks | Kyudo: The Way of the Bow | Shambala, Boston & London | 2002 | ISBN 1-57062-852-1 |
| Hudiakov, U.S & Tseveendorj, D | New Finds of Hun Bows in the Altai of the Gobi | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1993 | JSAA Vol. 36 p.70 |
| Isles, Fred | Turkish Flight Arrows | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1961 | JSAA Vol. 4 |
| Karpowicz,
Adam James, Jay Kim, Albert B. |
Asian/Turkish Bow construction FAQ | INTERNET | 15 April 1996 |
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/ajcd/archery/faq/asianbow.html |
| Klopsteg,
Paul E |
Turkish Archery and the Composite Bow. | privately printed | 1947 | - |
| Kooi, B. W. | Functioning of Ears and Set-Back at the Grip of Asiatic Bows | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1996 | JSAA Vol. 39 p.73 |
| Koppedrayer, K. I. | A Note on the Archery Tradition of the Tanjavur Maratha Kings | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1995 | JSAA Vol. 38 p.36 |
| Koppedrayer, K. I. | A Twelfth Century Indian Account of a Bow Initiation Rite | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1996 | JSAA Vol. 39 p.60 |
| Kroeber, A. I. | Arrow Release Distributions | University of California Press | 1927 | University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. Vol. 23, No. 4. pp. 283-296. 1 map. |
| Latham, JD and Paterson, WF | Saracen Archery: An English Version and Exposition of a Mameluke Work on Archery (1368) | Holland
Press, London |
1970 | |
| McEwen, E | Mongolian Journey | Instinctive Archer Magazine | 1999 | Spring 1999 page 42. |
| McEwen, E | The Bow of the
Ox (artillery crossbows) |
Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1985 | JSAA Vol. 28 p.15 |
| McEwen, E | Mongolian Journey | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1993 | JSAA Vol. 36 p.19 |
| McEwen, E and Elmy, D | Whistling arrows | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1970 | JSAA Vol. 13 |
| Morucci, Bruno & Maugeri, Stefano | L'Arco:
I Raconti, La Storia, Lo Sport (Italian only) |
Beniamini Edizioni | 1999 | No
ISBN Publisher's telno. 06-5881157 |
| Munkhtsetseg | Mongolian National Archery | Instinctive Archer Magazine | 1999 | Spring 1999 page 49. |
| Onuma, Hideharu; Deprospero, Dan (Contributor), Deprospero, Jackie (Contributor) | Kyudo : The Essence and Practice of Japanese Archery | Kodansha International | 1993 | ISBN 4770017340 |
| Pant, Gayatri Nath | Indian Archery | Agam Kala Prakashan, Delhi | 1940, 1997, 1995 | - |
| Payne-Gallwey, Ralph | The Crossbow | Longmans, Green & Co. | 1903 | Appended treatise on Turkish and other Oriental Bows of Mediaeval and Later Times. Notes on the Range of the Turkish Bow. Also a detailed description of the Chinese repeating crossbow in Ch. XLIX. |
| Riesch, Holger | Arrows
and Bows of the 'Dark Ages'
Pfeil und Bogen zur
Merowingerzeit |
Karfunkel Verlag, Wald Michelbach | 2002 | ISBN 3-935616-09-0 |
| Selby, Stephen | The Archery Tradition of China. | Instinctive Archer Magazine | 1998 | Spring 1998 page 38. |
| Selby, Stephen | Chinese Archery | Hong Kong University Press | 2000, 2003 | ISBN 962-209-501-1 |
| Selby, Stephen | Archery
Traditions of Asia (Chinese/English) |
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence | 2003 | ISBN 962-7039-47-0 |
| Selignman, C. G. | Bow and Arrow Symbolism | Eurasia Septentrionalis Antiqua, IX | c. 1935 | |
| Shokaryev Yu. V. | Hitory
of Weaponry - Bows and Crossbows (in Russian only) |
Astrel Press | 2001 | ISBN 5-271-01457-6 |
| T'an, Tan-Chung | Investigative
report on bow and arrow manufacture in Chengtu |
Soochow University Journal of Chinese Art History | 1981 | Vol.11, July 1981. |
| Tibbs, Martin A. | The Bow in Australia (pre-European archery in Australia) | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1989 | JSAA Vol. 32 p.49 |
| University of Wisconsin-Parkside Physics Web Server | Bibliography for composite bow construction | INTERNET | 1999 | http://rustam.uwp.edu/biblio.html |
| Vitt Jr, George G | Chu-Ko-Nu, The Manchurian Repeating Crossbow | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1995 | JSAA Vol. 38 p.10 |
| Vitt Jr, George G | A Pair of Imperial House Yano-ne (Japanese ceremonial arrow-heads) | Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1997 | JSAA Vol. 40 p.8 |
| Watanabe, Hitoshi | Bow and Arrow Census in a West Papuan Lowland Community | Occasional Papers in Anthropology, Number 5. Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland. | 1975 | ISBN 0-909611-11-4 |
| Yücel, Üncal Trans. Edward McEwen | Archery in the
Period of Sultan Mahmud II (Turkish archery) |
Society of Archer-Antiquaries | 1997 | JSAA Vol. 40 p.68 |
This page last up-dated on 10 February, 2004
Last up-dated: February 10, 2004