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Sen no Rikyu's Incense Rule: The Philosophy of Almost Nothing
There is a position on fragrance so radical that most people who encounter it assume it must be a mistranslation. It is not about what...
The Ranjatai: A Piece of Wood Cut Eleven Times in Twelve Hundred Years
The Ranjatai: A Piece of Wood Cut Eleven Times in Twelve Hundred Years
The Blind Monk Who Carried an Olfactory Civilization in His Cargo Hold
In the winter of 743 CE, a Chinese monk named Jianzhen stood on the shore of the Yangtze Delta and watched a ship being loaded...