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  2. Kōdō - Wikipedia

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    One of the oldest traditional incense companies in Japan is Baieido, founded in 1657 with roots going back to the Muromachi period. Other traditional and still operating companies include Kyukyodo (1663, Kyoto) and Shoyeido, founded in 1705. Nippon Kodo is also a major supplier of incense material.

  3. Nippon Kodo - Wikipedia

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    Nippon Kodo (日本香堂) is a Japanese incense company that traces their origins back over 400 years to an incense maker known as Koju, who made incense for the Emperor of Japan. The Nippon Kodo Group was established in August 1965, has acquired several other incense companies worldwide, and has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Paris ...

  4. Incense in Japan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Category:Japanese incense companies - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Japanese incense companies" ... Baieido; K. Kyukyodo; N. Nippon Kodo; S. Shoyeido This page was last edited on 9 August 2018, at 01:50 ...

  6. Kodo - Wikipedia

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    Kōdō (香道), ceremonial appreciation of incense; Nippon Kodo (日本香堂), an incense company; Kodō (taiko group) (鼓童), a taiko drumming group; Kodo-kai (弘道会), a yakuza criminal organization; The imperial way (皇道), a propaganda concept related to hakkō ichiu

  7. Shoyeido - Wikipedia

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    Shoyeido has several stores in Japan across five cities, including four in Kyōto, three in Tōkyō, one in Sapporo, and one in Boulder, Colorado, USA. [5] Shoyeido also manages the store LISN in Kyōto since 2004, which is specifically designed for the customers unfamiliar with the world of incense.

  8. Fumi-e - Wikipedia

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    Picture of Jesus used to reveal practicing Catholics and sympathizers Picture of the Virgin Mary. A fumi-e (踏み絵, fumi "stepping-on" + e "picture") was a likeness of Jesus or Mary onto which the religious authorities of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan required suspected Christians to step, in order to demonstrate that they were not members of the outlawed religion; otherwise they would be ...

  9. Incense offering - Wikipedia

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    The incense offering (Hebrew: קְטֹרֶת ‎ qəṭōreṯ) in Judaism was related to perfumed offerings on the altar of incense in the time of the Tabernacle and the First and Second Temple period, and was an important component of priestly liturgy in the Temple in Jerusalem.