It is said that even samurai warriors would prepare for battle by purifying their minds and bodies with incense. In Japan, kodo dates back more than one thousand years when nobles in the Imperial ...

Incense smoke is a fabric of Japanese traditional ceremonies, so ubiquitous it’s often overlooked. Incense listening is an exercise that focuses on the sensory ambience incense’s delicate ...

The first time I encountered Nippon Kodo incense was at Roberta Oaks boutique in downtown Honolulu. The shopkeeper’s handwritten description claimed that it was “the world’s best incense ...

But this gallery belongs to Nippon Kōdō, Japan’s biggest incense company, and this unprepossessing object provides the raw materials for some of the world’s finest and most sought-after scents.

This is the busiest shrine we've come to, with people bustling about, lighting incense ... based Japan specialist that can tailor-make -a wide variety of trips. It offers a Kumano Kodo add ...

Thanks to our instructions from Oku Japan—the travel company that helped plan our self-guided journey along a portion of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage ... take a pinch of incense.