"A readied weapon is a weapon that a character is prepared to use, either offensively or defensively. A character may ready a weapon at will during narrative time, or as an action during a conflict scene. When a character has the opportunity to ready weapons, they may choose any number of weapons at range 0-1 that they can hold at once."
Why the restriction of range (0-1) ? Can't you ready a yari (range 2) or a yumi (range 2-5) then ?