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  is pronounced with "Binchotan".
Binchotan is typical as "White charcoal" - Hard charcoal - in the Japanese charcoal.
Carbonized at high temperature, binchotan is hard like steel and the cut end is shining with black silver gray.
Moreover, since the fire charcoals are put with ashes and the fire is extinguished when it takes out from kiln, the surface is smoothly and whitish. It is the reason "Binchotan" is called "White charcoal."
Especially, the Kishuu Binchotan is made in "Kishuu" (outskirts of Wakayama prefecture) is excellent in quality, and is produced about 70% of domestic Binchotan.
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