Incense Appreciation¶

Claim & Evidence¶

Claim: 品香 (pǐnxiāng) — incense appreciation; attending to a fragrant wood (chiefly agarwood) with the focused, sustained attention given to music, codified in Japanese kōdō as "listening" (聞香, monkō) to fragrance.

Evidence sources:

Source	Type	Evidence level	Accessed
Japanese Incense & Kōdō (香道): The Art From China	traditional	Tier 6 — Editorial synthesis	2026-09-20

Attributes¶

Field	Value
Type	appreciation technique ("listening" to fragrance)
Period	codified in kōdō (Muromachi, c. 1336–1573); Chinese origin in Song 隔火焚香
Materials	agarwood (jinkō 沈香) chiefly; sandalwood (白檀) secondary
Equipment	kōdō tools (香道具): ash, charcoal, mica plate, chopsticks, ash press
Smoke level	near-zero (near-flameless warming)
Related	kōdō (香道), rikkoku gomi (六国五味), monkō (聞香)

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