Sen Incense - Hinoki | Kunjudo
Sen Incense - Hinoki | Kunjudo
POJ Studio
Hinoki, Japanese cypress, is the wood of temples and traditional bathhouses - the scent most Japanese interiors have carried for centuries, long before anyone thought to bottle it. Kunjudo's Sen Incense captures it plainly: woody, calming, the kind of smell that asks a room to slow down.
Each stick is hand-rolled in the Fukunaga family's Awaji Island workshop and dyed with natural ingredients rather than synthetic colour, which is why it burns down to a soft, light grey rather than a stark black ash. Kunjudo has worked this way since 1893.
Available as a long stick which burns for around 26 minutes. Fifty sticks to a box.
Hand-rolled on Awaji Island by Kunjudo.
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About the maker
In 595 AD, driftwood washed up on Awaji Island and someone burned it. The fragrant smoke made it into the Nihon Shoki as Japan's first recorded incense. The island's warm climate and sea breeze proved ideal for drying the raw material - incense-making's most essential step. Awaji has been Japan's incense country ever since.
Kunjudo has worked the island since 1893, when the Fukunaga family opened as Fukunaga Senko Store. The family still runs it. Kunjudo now produces more incense sticks by volume than any other workshop in the country, and in 1975 developed the world's first low-smoke incense - without retiring the older, smokier methods connoisseurs still request by name.
POJ Studio, a Kyoto-based studio built on relationships with Japan's artisans, brought Kunjudo's incense to The Leopard, and continues to work with the Fukunaga family on new formats. Between them: the Sen and Uzumaki stick incense, hand-rolled in the Awaji workshop, and the Leaf Incense, pressed into washi paper that holds its scent for days as a fragrant bookmark before it's ever lit.
