Tetsubin, Japanese cast iron tea kettle (Nambu Tekki)

Traditional Nambu Tekki tetsubin kettle           The beginning of the Nambu Tekki was the policy that Nambu domain (today’s Iwate Prefecture) had traditionally encouraged to produce the casting.   And one of the daimyo who loved tea ceremony invited a kettle maker Koizumi Nizaemon from Kyoto and made him create a new […]

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