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Japan's Oldest Blend - MUKUSA NO TAKIMONO
Scents from the Heian period (794-1185), when The Tale of Genji was written. It is probably the oldest recorded "Japanese fragrance blends" that have been handed down to the present.The term ...
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The "Ten Virtue of Incense" is a poem that expresses the benefits of incense in a straightforward and elegant manner by Huang Tingjian who is poet in the 11th century in China. It is said that it ...
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It is one of the raw materials for incense, and is read as "TABUKO". It is the bark of a tall evergreen tree of the genus Tabunoki (Camellia sinensis). The bark is dried, peeled off, and ground in...
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It is one of the raw materials for incense, and is read as "NYUKOU". It is the rhizome of turmeric, a perennial herb of the ginger family. This is the "autumn turmeric," which flowers in the ...
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It is one of the raw materials for incense, and is read as "ANSOKUKOU". It is the resin of a tall evergreen tree of the Egonaceae family found in Southeast Asia, including the Malay Peninsula. The...
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It is one of the raw materials for incense, and is read as "KAKKOU". Its English name is "Patchouli" which is also used in essential oil. It is made by drying the stems and leaves of a perennial p...
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It is one of the raw materials for incense, and is read as "KANSHOU". It is the dried roots and stems of a perennial alpine plant of the Phellodendron family that grows only in the mountains of th...
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It is one of the raw materials for incense, and is read as "NYUKOU". It is the resin of a tall, evergreen tree of the genus Boswellia in the olivaceae family from the Middle East. It is a rubbery ...
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It is one of the raw materials for incense, and is read as "CHOUJI". One of the raw materials for incense, it is read as "kakko" and its English name is "patchouli patchouli" which is also used in...
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It is one of the raw materials for incense, and is read as "RYUNOU". It is a large evergreen tree of the Dipterocarpaceae family. The dragon brain tree from which the dragon brain is extracted is ...
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