incense

4 min read 2022-12-02 01:12:11

tiny gifts for grown-up people.

Five of my favorite tiny gifts made by other folks, wrapped up in a simple project made by you! Yes? Yes! In case you have the itch to offer a little

4 min read 2022-12-02 01:12:11

Five of my favorite tiny gifts made by other folks, wrapped up in a simple project made by you! Yes? Yes! In case you have the itch to offer a little

3 min read 2022-08-30 21:00:00

A couple of weeks ago the owner of Lucky Incense, an online Chinese retailer specializing in Feng Shui decorations and incense, contacted me about

1 min read 2022-08-17 23:19:15

Inspired by the classic 1619 bronze Manneken Pis (Dutch: “little pissing man”) fountain found in Brussels, Belgium (and since recreated for

4 min read 2022-08-16 12:00:35

Tokyo store teaches customers how to “listen” to scents instead of smelling them. Ever since incense first arrived in Japan in the sixth

2 min read 2022-08-12 13:47:06

In the midst of the Hungry Ghost Festival when spirits roam the earth, it’s fairly easy to spot prayer items on the temporary altars placed by the

10 min read 2022-08-04 20:50:59

Early August and Summer’s heat peaks. Out in the garden, daylight glows radiant orange, beaming off of the flat broad maple leaves, through skin

14 min read 2022-06-19 07:00:00

Taipei is a dynamic metropolis where tradition and modernity live in harmonious integration. The city is home to a legion of large, bright, and

8 min read 2022-05-13 05:19:01

Spring has faded and the first warm days of Summer of the old lunisolar calendar have arrived in the Hudson Valley. Birdsongs peel against the

14 min read 2022-05-05 12:06:19

Today is the fifth of May. Ostensibly, it is the beginning of Summer on the traditional lunisolar calendar (立夏 Rikka). And, yet, all around me

8 min read 2022-04-05 05:06:29

Finally, Winter’s cold seems like a memory as Spring’s first warm day is here. Birds call and breezes push through the trees whose branches now

2 min read 2022-03-08 19:45:46

Sarah McCartney Court of Ravens is part of a trilogy of fragrances inspired by the new 4160 Tuesdays location in Hammersmith. There’s Hammersmith

28 min read 2022-02-08 08:29:30

INTRODUCTION I love incense. I’ve been fascinated with it since I was a young child and discovered that my parents had two boxes of cone incense.

14 min read 2022-02-07 12:00:29

The most zen part of our self-guided Kyoto tour. After a few luxurious hot spring soaks on part one of his Kyoto tour, our reporter Egawa Tasuku

4 min read 2022-02-02 19:21:59

I can hardly believe I’ve been subscribing to HooHaa for so long. I still feel like we’re in the honeymoon period. Now, I don’t work for