Cedar pollen.

Some say it s because it resembles an incense bowl (with the chopsticks as the incense).

Tracking the 'Cedar Pollen Front'

Here's the cedar pollen front.

She likes to burn incense while practising yoga.

The scent of cedar repels moths.

The Annual Japanese Agony of Cedar Pollen

A cedar tree releases clouds of allergy inducing pollen.

Like every other Buddhist temple in Japan, the interior was dim and smelled of incense.

That baby was Jesus, and he received gold, incense, and myrrh brought to him by the three kings.

Statistics for each school are made available to the public through an online database system called CEDAR.

A household shrine with incense sticks stands in front of one of the apartments in the White Building, July 14, 2017.

played left tackle and nose guard on the football team of Cedar Creek High School in Ruston, Louisiana.

Lebanon s Cedar Revolution, which galvanized the West in the same way as Ukraine s Orange Revolution, has been systematically undermined.

As the nation rebuilt itself, demand for timber surged, and cedar and cypress were the trees of choice for the forestry industry.

Cedar pollen production peaks in late March to early April and then steadily declines, while cypress pollination lags behind by about a month.

The map below shows the progression of the cedar pollen front or sugi kafun zensen (スギ花粉前線) across the country.

A second group of officers waited along the eastern side of Broadway, between Liberty and Cedar Streets, in case they had to move in.

The culprit is pollen from trees, in particular the Japanese cedar or sugi (杉, Cryptomeria japonica) and Japanese cypress or hinoki (檜, Chamaecyparis obtusa).

The price of plank cedar in Lahore is incentive enough to corrupt, or kill, any Green Corps men brave enough to stand in their way.

At the time of its Cedar Revolution last year, Lebanon was held up as the best example so far of democratization in the Arab world.

Mujahedin factions and later the Taliban exported stands of fine grained cedar by the truckload from Nangahar and surrounding provinces to Pakistan, often in return for arms.

Mujahedin factions and later the Taliban exported stands of fine grained cedar by the truckload from Nangahar and surrounding provinces to Pakistan, often in return for arms.

Coffee was founded, Sidecar Coffee in Cedar Falls, Iowa, in the US, flew down to Jamaica to give the young men an intense two day training in coffee making.

Professor Nguyễn says it s not so much that an incense bowl is bad luck, but because it is so often used during ceremonies commemorating the deceased, it is often associated with a death in the family.

But as the cedar and cypress trees (and their pollen) are unlikely to be going anywhere in the near future, Japan can expect another round of hay fever misery next year.

With mournful, beautiful ceremonial music playing in the background and candles and incense burning on small altars, Sara, a 22 year old who has been on the road for over a year and a half, leans back and exhales.

Isolated, desperate for allies, Syria has been helping Iran in its quest for regional hegemony. Since Lebanon s Cedar Revolution evicted Syria last year, the Syrians have sought to haul Lebanon back within their sphere of influence.

Meanwhile, in Lebanon, journalism student Bassel al Amin is being investigated for insulting the state in a Facebook post in which he wrote that the state and the Cedar, a national symbol, were not worth a Syrian s shoes.

The piece of art you see on your left is painted by a western red cedar and that on your right by a Douglas fir, and what I learned was that different species have different signatures, like a Picasso versus a Monet.

Worse still, there is little capacity to fight them, as existing fire fighting resources are used to try to save human lives. Consequently, bushes and forests burn, reducing the stands of cedar trees a symbol of Lebanon as much as the bald eagle is of the United States by the day towards extinction.