Baieido

Baieido’s Japanese website traces its incense trade in Sakai to 1657. We report that as the maker’s historical account. It does not establish the current factory of an individual box.

Our detailed English information comes from Baieido’s North American distributor, Esoterics East LLC. The manufacturer’s product-series listing corroborates the Kobunboku and Tokusen Kobunboku names. The blend and package descriptions are attributed to the distributor, not passed off as manufacturer-authored text.

The distributor describes regular Kobunboku as sandalwood, borneol, clove, cinnamon and other medicinal herbs. It describes Tokusen as the same formula with Kalimantan aloeswood added. That gives a specific reason to compare the two; it does not prove that one is better.

Package lengths differ. A two-hour claim appears for a 14-inch Kobunboku temple variant, not the 5.5-inch sticks represented here. We keep the shorter variants’ burn times unknown instead of borrowing that number.

This is a starting reference, not a complete maker catalog. The entries below are the specific incense we have documented.

For each one, source links show where a note, ingredient or package detail comes from. Unknowns stay visible beside known facts.

Comparisons are based on those descriptions, not a blind test. We do not assign ratings, infer safety claims or report firsthand burns.