Ball incense burner - Kyukoro

Japanese: 毬香炉 - きゅうこうろ

...The common type of incense burner is a shallow burner with three to five high legs and a tall lid. A hanging incense burner is called a ball incense burner, surrounded by two hemispherical bonfires with openwork on the outside and containing an ash pan designed to always remain level. In Japan, Tang-style incense burners have been preserved in the Shosoin Repository....

From [Incense Tools]

...An incense clock is a device that measures time by lining up powdered incense in a curved groove, lighting it from one side, and measuring the rate at which it burns. A ball incense burner (kogama, komari, haiko) is a spherical incense burner with a transparent opening, with the part that holds the ash designed to always stay horizontal, and small ball incense burners were also carried in pockets and used to store incense. There are also hanging incense, in which the mixed incense is placed in a bag and hung on a pillar, as well as incense bags and kariroku....

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "mari incense burner" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…3ないし5本の高足をつけた浅い身に高い蓋がつく火舎香炉が一般的である。また外側を透し彫をいれた2個の半球形篝でかこみ，うちに常時水平を保つようにくふうした灰盤を置いた垂下用のものを毬香炉という。　日本では唐式の薫炉が正倉院に伝えられている。…

【香道具】より

…屈折した1条の溝に香の粉末を並べ，一方から着火して燃えぐあいで時間をはかる道具を香時計という。透しのある球形の香炉で灰を入れる部分はつねに水平を保つようにくふうされたのが毬（まり）香炉(香玉，香毬（こうまり），佩香（はいこう）)で，小型の毬香炉は懐中して留香にも用いられた。調合した香を袋に入れ柱に掛ける掛香(懸香)や香囊，訶梨勒（かりろく）などもある。…

※「毬香炉」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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