Japanese Buddhist Offer Incense Shoko Burning Incense Vtg Wood Chips W/ Box IN15 house Kanji meaning: silk warp threads

Kanji meaning: silk warp threads

Including a wooden stone stand

Minister of the Army of Japan in 1934

Hand-woven with thin and wider bamboo strips

Japanese Buddhist Offer Incense Shoko Burning Incense Vtg Wood Chips W/ Box IN15 house Kanji meaning: silk warp threadsVtg Japanese Buddhist Shoko Incense This is a Japanese Buddhist equipment Shoko (offers incense or burning incense). Shoko is scented wood chips. The wood chips are wrapped and stored in a paper box. It is used by attendants of Buddhist funerals and memorial services in turn to burn it. The scent of incense sticks is said to feed the deceased, purify themselves, and smoke delivers prayers and thoughts to the ancestors and the dead. Wood, paper (box)