It would be very heavy for a schoolgirl plinking targets which averages maybe 15 kilos, it would be somewhat heavy for a female bowhunter who probably pulls maybe around 23 kilos on a hunting bow (19 is normally considered about the lowest draw that has the energy to reliably kill medium sized game like deer quickly), but only around average for a male that would probably pull between 25 to 32 depending on age and preference. It's not even close to a war bow which could have a 50 kilo draw though.
While the older war yumi of the past could (according to some scholars) have draws of 35-70kg, if the author is only familiar with modern casual yumi 30kg would seem like quite a lot - considering that the average draw weight for those is only 13kg (30lbs). This goes double if they only saw it in (junior high and high school) clubs.
I don't believe that anyone in Japan would be using a yumi to hunt with, kyuudo is considered a sport martial art first and foremost (the same as with kendo), bow hunters use the expected recurve or compound bows instead.
The yumi, because it was a compound bow, could be layered up to nine times according to what I've read before, with the technology peaking around the Sengoku Jidai (where the gun was introduced and obviously mucked everything up - the Edo era afterwards went back to smaller target bows) and could hypothetically have a draw weight of up to around 200 kg, although nobody actually did that, since nobody could actually reliably draw a bow that heavy. Comparatively, something like a 60 kg (Welsh long)bow was needed to pierce plate armor, even at suicidal point-blank range. (The Japanese, facing lighter armor, had generally less heavy arrows meant for longer ranges to hit less armored troops.)
... But then, this is a joke about how a conversion carrier like Ryuuhou that, historically, could barely even launch obsolete planes in fair weather and constantly broke down the instant a little wind picked up, can't launch the same planes as a (well, granted, also finnicky conversion) CV.
While the older war yumi of the past could (according to some scholars) have draws of 35-70kg, if the author is only familiar with modern casual yumi 30kg would seem like quite a lot - considering that the average draw weight for those is only 13kg (30lbs). This goes double if they only saw it in (junior high and high school) clubs.
I don't believe that anyone in Japan would be using a yumi to hunt with, kyuudo is considered a sport martial art first and foremost (the same as with kendo), bow hunters use the expected recurve or compound bows instead.
No one in Japan is using any bow to hunt with since bow hunting is actually illegal. So yeah a Japanese persons only experience with bows is with what amounts to sports equipment, not a weapon actually intended to kill anything. Hence thinking 30 kilos is a super heavy draw when that's actually only slightly above average for a modern male hunting bow.
While illegal, there are (very) infrequent times where bow and spear hunting has been allowed for culling purposes.
*I think that's super-heavy!MORE THAN 30!!?*with ease*Kaga-san, just how much is that bow's draw weight, anyway?Go ahead.It really isn't...Maybe somewhere northward of 30kg?...huh?This bow.... it's not giving an inch, is it?I can draw it too if I try my best!Incidentally,Is it okay to let me try drawing it a little?The 1stCarDiv are astonishing.