On-yumishi Kanjuro Shibata XX (御å¼Â師 äºÂÃ¥ÂÂ代 æ´ç° Ã¥ÂÂÃ¥ÂÂé Shibata Kanjà «rà  born 1921 in Kyoto, Japan, died on 21 October 2013 in Boulder, United States) was twentieth in a line of master bowmakers and a kyà «dà  teacher of the Heki Ryà « Bishà « Chikurin-ha (æ¥置æµÂå°¾å·Â竹æÂÂæ´¾) tradition. Beginning in 1980, Shibata founded over 25 kyà «dà Âjà  in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Shibata served as the Bowmaker to the Emperor of Japan from 1959 until 1994, when his adopted son, Nobuhiro, was recognized as the 21st in the Shibata lineage and assumed the duties of Imperial Bowmaker.
In Japan, Shibata became concerned that his students were too fixated on merely hitting the target, and were treating kyà «dà  as a sport rather than a meditative art. He felt they were becoming too competitive. Shibata thus represents a view of kyà «dà  different from the All Nippon Kyudo Federation (ANKF) and Japanese Budà  Association. Rather than as a meditative art, ANKF promotes kyà «dà  as a traditional budà  art combining equally both physical and mental development. These differences led Shibata to exclude his tradition from the official Japanese budà  associations.
In 1980, Shibata accepted an invitation from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche to come to the United States and teach kyà «dà Â, and founded the Ryà «kà  Kyà «dà Âjà  (é¾ÂèÂÂå¼ÂéÂÂå ´ "dragon-tiger archery practice hall") in Boulder, Colorado; it is now called the Zenko Iba.
Shibata did not rank his students (i.e. no belt or dan system), and there was and is no testing or contests within the schools he founded.