Nippon Kodo Morning Star Sage – Japanese Incense Sticks

Morning Star Sage by Nippon Kodo combines the traditional form of Japanese incense sticks with an aromatic fragrance composition centred around sage. The Morning Star series has been part of the Japanese incense manufacturer's range since the 1960s and is designed for easy, everyday incense burning.

The incense sticks are made in the Japanese style without a bamboo core. This means that no additional scent from a burning wooden stick is produced, allowing the fragrance composition itself to remain more prominent. They also produce less smoke than many incense sticks with a bamboo core.

Morning Star Sage fragrance

The Sage variant has an aromatic, herbal and fresh-spicy fragrance reminiscent of the characteristic scent of sage. It is a composed Japanese interpretation of the fragrance rather than the burning of dried sage leaves. The clear herbal scent is suitable for everyday home fragrance as well as for quiet moments, meditation or yoga.

How to use and burn time

Light the tip of an incense stick and then carefully blow out the flame. The stick will continue to smoulder slowly and release its fragrance. The burn time is approximately 25 minutes per stick.

Morning Star Sage is available in packs of 50 or 200 incense sticks. Both sizes include a small ceramic holder, so the sticks can be used straight away.

Japanese brand – made in Vietnam

Nippon Kodo is a long-established Japanese incense manufacturer based in Tokyo. Morning Star is one of the company's Japanese product lines and is now manufactured in Vietnam, as stated on the packaging.