It's time for another weekly Samurai Fact!

This week's fact... Archery.

Before they were famously known as skilled swordsmen, the samurai class started off as horse-mounted archers.
The need for swords and other weaponry arrived when the samurai would be the first ones to charge into war and other battle situations.

But we'll be covering the full gambit of their weapons arsenal in another, future samurai fact.