also: もんこう
incense smelling; incense-smelling party
Refers to the traditional Japanese practice of appreciating incense by smell, often in a formal gathering or game where participants distinguish different scents.
I attended an incense-smelling party and enjoyed the fragrance of aromatic woods.
In incense smelling, one quietly savors the scent rising from the incense burner.
Standard kanji form; reading ぶんこう is more common than もんこう.
Alternate reading; less common but still used.
Compound of 聞 (hear, but here meaning 'to smell' in a refined sense) and 香 (incense). The reading ぶんこう is the more common on'yomi combination; もんこう is an alternative on'yomi reading.