@park_hyun_gi: Ever wondered what time smelled like? This is an incense clock (jokoban in Japan), that was used all over east Asia to measure time by burning incense trails 🕰️ To learn more, we host monthly incense workshops at Goyo in LA & NY 💫
If I lived in that time I’d tell people “you’re burnin my incense” instead of “You’re wasting my time”
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Julia Montoya :
oh so time is of the essence 💕
2026-02-06 11:11:47
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X :
maybe humans are happier back then because they didn't precisely measure everything.
2026-02-05 15:18:50
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Avery :
I always read books that use incense as time, I now can picture it correctly
2026-02-04 18:07:50
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ashling.3099 :
so THAT is why the character for time is 時! it's made out of day/sun 日, and temple 寺 !!! THIS IS AMAZING
2026-02-05 12:07:53
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faaace jones :
This is so powerful considering that scent is powerful trigger to memory
2026-02-05 16:42:50
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Amarachi. :
I just took a whiff of 3pm. Seems close.
2026-02-05 13:37:17
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🥀Aleia :
Me a writer:
2026-02-06 04:20:55
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ziterman :
I think it would be even cooler if you use different incenses in the same stencil load, so the smell tells you which specific hour or time of the day is it
2026-02-05 14:19:02
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thegirlwhoisme :
So are there more or less intricate stencils for different increments of time?
2026-02-06 04:09:37
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Sarah Elyse Art :
this is genuinely SO COOL!!
2026-02-05 07:39:44
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Hyungi :
There were many different shapes of these clocks as well, including different types of intricate stencils. Some stencils were almost maze like which would burn for a very long time
2026-02-04 17:10:00
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Senwamaphodi 🇨🇩🍉🇸🇩 :
If colonialism has no haters then I am dead, 😭 this is so iconic
2026-02-06 18:28:52
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blue 🫧 :
kinda geeked i knew this from watching so many historical dramas
in the Dream of the Red Mansions you sometimes had to write a poem in the time it took for an incense stick to burn out 🥰
2026-02-05 15:08:05
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Iman :
This is insanely cool
2026-02-05 04:19:33
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ayoappleamiright :
that is incredibly cool 🤩
2026-02-05 04:49:15
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Dominique :
Immediately obsessed
2026-02-05 12:04:55
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🤍 :
I had no idea these kept time!! The whole time you were talking, I was wondering what measurement of time the incense is - like did they add them together as they burn?? Then realized they literally are free from the time we’re bound by - and literally are going off however long that burns…. So cool 🥰
2026-02-05 04:08:20
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onekirne :
recently learned of the Ongee people of the Andaman Islands who used a calendar based on the smells of flowering plants.
2026-02-05 14:27:15
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baynomad :
this is my type of content
2026-02-05 01:20:23
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uptownlens :
i love learning new things
2026-02-05 07:07:44
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xtinaluo :
omg my tattoo artist went viral again!!!! hi hyungiii 💕💕💕💕💕
2026-02-12 05:41:40
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Яenée :
That’s the chic’est way to tell time tbh
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