正射正中 seisha seichū Correct Shooting, Correct Hit

The four characters are the maxim of Japanese archery, that shooting done correctly hits, so attend to the form and the hit follows, and the English title is the English Wikipedia's 2005 rendering of these four characters. The form the kyūdō federation writes is 正射必中, seisha hitchū, correct shooting, certain hit; this form, with a second correct where the standard has certain, is a spoken variant Japanese archers also use, and it means the same thing.

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