Japanese aristocrats did hunt for sport, although by the late Edo period the most popular form of hunting seems to have been falconry (called Takagari).

Bowhunting existed, but was not common, and I've hardly ever seen it depcited in art. In contrast, falconry was *the defining sport of the samurai class, and dayimo would spend large sums to maintain an aviary of goshawks and sometimes Siberian eagles.

There isn't a ton of literature on this topic -- the last good book was published in 1962!