Incense Cedar - incense cedar

Japanese: インセンス・シダー - いんせんすしだー
Incense Cedar - incense cedar

…H stands for hard, B for black, and F for firm. 99% of the shaft material is incense cedar (also called pencil cedar), imported from the United States, but Indonesian jelutong (a species of the Apocynaceae family) is becoming more popular. Long pencils for souvenirs are also made from a broadleaf tree called linden, which is native to Hokkaido. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "incense cedar" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…Hはhard,Bはblack,Fはfirmの意味である。軸材は,その99%がインセンス・シダー(ペンシル・シダーともいう)というアメリカからの輸入材であるが,インドネシアのジェルトン(キョウチクトウ科の1種)が増えつつある。みやげ用の長い鉛筆などには,北海道産のシナノキという広葉樹も使われている。…

※「インセンス・シダー」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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