Incense Seals and Stamps in Chinese and Korean Culture: Typology and Context

This article analyzes artistic seals and stamps as a special tool in incense culture of China Korea, used from the early Middle Ages to present day. These tools varying look shape are analyzed historical cultural context, using high quality materials sources drawn ethnographic anthropological research authors. The use evolution such can be traced back far Esoteric Buddhist practices 7 th – 8 centuries (and their prototypes form Taoist ritual talisman-seals 符 fu or 印 yin dated 4 5 centuries). In Korean however, these back, presumably, only Goryeo era (918–1392), after which long gap terms findings follows. typological analysis development traditions tools, this particular case, could completed predominantly current material. As result comparative study, identifies most representative types patterns, determines functions applicability tools.