“Following trends like sandalwood, palo santo, and cypress, hinoki is rooted in its traditional use in Japanese bathhouses and is closely associated with calmness and well-being. This connection ...

Hundreds of people on June 9 welcomed the arrival of the sacred wood that will be used to rebuild a divine palace at Ise ...

A wood derived from cypress trees, Hinoki is known for its citrusy, slightly balsamic notes, and it’s long been a Japanese bathhouse fixture. More recently, though, the wood has made its way ...

Hinoki, also known as Japanese cypress or "king of the woods," is used to build sacred buildings in Japan as well as Japanese bathhouses and onsen (hot-spring baths). When the steam from the baths ...

But not Masayuki Oshima, the charismatic president of Youbi, a small producer of Japanese hinoki cypress furniture in the picturesque village of Nishiawakura in Okayama prefecture. After the last ...

A special type of cypress native to Japan, hinoki smells herbaceous, green, and cedar-like. It has become an It ingredient in perfume, popping up in bath products like Nécessaire’s Hinoki body ...

After World War II, Japan began reforesting the country with fast-growing sugi (cedar) and hinoki (cypress) trees. However, this effort led to a hay fever crisis, which was first noticed in 1964. By ...

Maybe it’s all that time we’ve spent sweating it out from wood-planked infrared saunas—or at least fantasizing about it while watching yet another Architectural Digest celebrity house tour—but ...