Archery and target-shooting in pre-Islamic Java; What can be known?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol26/iss3/8" target="_blank" >https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol26/iss3/8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17510/wacana.v26i3.1895" target="_blank" >10.17510/wacana.v26i3.1895</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Archery and target-shooting in pre-Islamic Java; What can be known?

Original language description

In Java today, archery survives as a traditional discipline called jemparingan. Javanese archery involves targeting a pendulum-like target from a shooting distance of 35 to 50 metres. The archers take aim from a cross-legged seated posture (bersila) and typically wear traditional Javanese attire during competitions. Though archery has been practiced in Java for long time, there has been surprisingly little effort to study its rich history. This study aims to historicize the jemparingan by looking at the Old Javanese archery terminology and the origin of competitive (“contest”) archery in Indonesia. The evidence from pre-Islamic Java, textual, visual, and archaeological, demonstrates that Javanese jemparingan is rooted in a much older tradition of precision shooting (target shooting), which can be traced to pre-Islamic times. I propose that shooting at targets in the form of a wooden or metal split-drum (kukulan) was known in Java as a form of military training by Majapahit times in the fourteenth century CE. The origin of this practice is probably rooted in the introduction of more powerful and hence more precise bows, via the Mongol and Chinese influences during the invasion of Java in 1292 CE or shortly after this historical event.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Wacana-Jurnal Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya-Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

ISSN

1411-2272

e-ISSN

2407-6899

Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

ID - INDONESIA

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

487-511

UT code for WoS article

001652093200008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105025224185