soshin

Updated: May 5, 2025

But it was not until the beginning of the sixteenth century that Shino Soshin converted the pastime into something like a philosophy. From his days no less than sixty-six distinct kinds of incense were recognized and distinguished by names derived from literary allusions. This pastime is not so elaborate as the cha-no-yu, nor does it furnish, like the latter, a series of criteria of art-objects.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era