Law." Examples ought to be given likewise of traditions attaching
to historical incenses preserved in several princely families,
together with specimens of those hereditary recipes for incense-
making which have been transmitted from generation to generation
through hundreds of years, and are still called after their
august inventors,--as "the Method of Hina-Dainagon," "the Method
of Sento-In," etc. Recipes also should be given of those strange
incenses made "to imitate the perfume of the lotos, the smell of
the summer breeze, and the odor of the autumn wind." Some legends
of the great period of incense-luxury should be cited,--such as
the story of Sue Owari-no-Kami, who built for himself a palace of
incense-woods, and set fire to it on the night of his revolt,
when the smoke of its burning perfumed the land to a distance of
twelve miles.... Of course the mere compilation of materials for
a history of mixed-incenses would entail the study of a host of
documents, treatises, and books,--particularly of such strange
works as the Kun-Shu-Rui-Sho, or "Incense-Collector's
Classifying-Manual";--containing the teachings of the Ten Schools
of the Art of Mixing Incense; directions as to the best seasons
for incense-making; and instructions about the "different kinds
of fire" to be used for burning incense--(one kind is called
"literary fire," and another "military fire"); 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