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Arita ware incense burner (kōro) with domestic scenes, late Edo period/early Meiji era, 19th century. Nabeshima ware was an Arita product, with overglaze decoration of a very high quality, produced for the Nabeshima Lords of the Saga Domain from the late 17th century into the 19th, with the first half of the 18th century considered the finest ...
A censer, incense burner, perfume burner or pastille burner is a vessel made for burning incense or perfume in some solid form. They vary greatly in size, form, and material of construction, and have been in use since ancient times throughout the world.
Life-sized, cock pheasant shaped incense burner composed of two parts; lifelike coloration with green, navy blue, red and gold pigments; used in the tea ceremony 1600 Edo period , 17th century Incense burner; Kyoto-ware, polychrome overglaze ( 色絵 , iroe ) ; length: 48.3 centimetres (19.0 in), width: 12.5 cm (4.9 in), height: 18.1 cm (7.1 in)
Incense burner (kōro) with peonies, Hirado ware, circa 1800 from Edo. According to legend, agarwood (aloeswood) first came to Japan when a log of incense wood drifted ashore on Awaji island in the third year of Empress Suiko's reign (595 CE). People who found the incense wood noticed that the wood smelled pleasant when they put it near a fire.
Most scholars date satsuma ware's appearance to the late sixteenth [1] or early seventeenth century. [2] In 1597–1598, at the conclusion of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's incursions into Korea, Korean potters, which at the time were highly regarded for their contributions to ceramics and the Korean ceramics industry, were captured and forcefully brought to Japan to kick-start Kyūshū's non-existent ...
Fragrant scent played an important role at court during the Heian period (image from The Tale of Genji by Tosa Mitsuoki, 1617–91.). Nihon Shoki, a book of classical Japanese history, gives the first formal record of incense in Japan when a log of agarwood, a fragrant wood used in incense burning, drifted ashore on Awaji Island during the Asuka period in 595 CE, and was presented to Prince ...
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[citation needed] The kiseru evolved along with the equipment and use of incense associated with the Japanese incense ceremony, kōdō: [5] The kō-bon, an incense tray, became the tabako-bon, a tobacco tray. The kōro, an incense burner, became the hi-ire, a tobacco embers pot. The incense pot became the hai-otoshi or hai-fuki, a jar to ...
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