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In Ghostly Japan
Lafcadio Hearn
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In Ghostly Japan
Lafcadio Hearn
Book Excerpt: ...ire"); together with rules for pressing the ashes of a censer into various artistic designs corresponding to season and occasion.... A special chapter should certainly be given to the incense-bags (kusadama) hung up in houses to drive away goblins, --and to the smaller incense-bags formerly carried about the person as a protection against evil spirits. Then a very large part of the work would have to be devoted to the religious uses and legends of incense, --a huge subject in itself. There would also have to be considered the curious history of the old "incense-assemblies," whose elaborate ceremonial could be explained only by help of numerous diagrams. One chapter at least would be required for the subject of the ancient importation of incense-materials from India, China, Annam, Siam, Cambodia, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and various islands of the Malay archipelago, --places all named in rare books about incense. And a final chapter should treat of the romantic literature of incense, --the poems, stories, a
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 17, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798682364800 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 100 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 5 mm · 145 g |
Language | English |
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