Re: OT: strange glyphs at Benihana

Mark J. Reed wrote:

> OK, so in our local Benihana restaurant I noticed on the wall six
> woodcuts of large single glyphs.  Each one includes five vertical
> lines with various pairs of them connected by a horizontal crossbar.
> Sometimes the vertical lines between outer connected lines are also
> touching the crossbar, and sometimes they are shortened so as not to.
>
> Any idea what these might be?  At first I thought they might be some
> variant of I Ching hexagrams, but as there are only five lines, not
> six, I don't know what the correspondence might be.  And I suspect the
> fact that there were a total of six exemplars might be significant as
> well.
>
> I wish I'd thought to bring a camera...
>
Actually these are a code for what I seem to recall was an incense game
played in the Heian era.

Here's one web reference -
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/texts/topictexts/faq/faq_genjimon.html

-shreyas