“Cat now equipped with kayari buta armor!!” This is how Japanese Twitter user and cat-lover ネコランド Nekoland (@NEKOLAND13) prefaced a post that went viral recently….

Mosquito coils, known as katori senkō 蚊取り線香 (literally “mosquito-removing incense”) in Japanese, are an unmistakable part of the iconography of summer in Japan. For many…

Artistic twists by traditional incense makers in Japan have resulted in some truly unique ideas, including beautiful fallen leaf and matchstick type incense. Fragrance item…

Katori senkō Along with traditional wind chimes, yukata summer kimonos, iced barley tea, shaved ice and traditional uchiwa fans, the spiral incense of the mosquito…