Chinese Small Natural Bamboo Incense Tube

Pale stalk with knuckles, built to be gripped and perhaps admired.

This small natural bamboo incense tube is from China. Incense sticks are generally kept upright or sealed in a narrow container so the scent stays fresh, and a bamboo segment suits that need well. Slender, upright rod in creamy pale tone, segmented along its length into rounded joints like a stalk of bamboo. The surface is smooth with faint warm mottling. Each node swells slightly, and the ends are cut square. It is 5 inches long and 0.7 in diameter.

All joints, no fuss, entirely straight in its ambitions.