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Choose the items of tea utensils as you like!

If you have a tea bowl and tea wisk, you can take Matcha.

Custermizing your Japanese Matcha tea set for the ceremony

But if you want to enjoy a proper tea ceremony and treat the guests, you will need various tools.

Tea bowl
Tea whisk
Tea caddy
Jug
Lid rest
Waste-water container
Silk cloth
Water pot
Hanging scroll
Incense container
Vase

Tea bowls

Use a teacup with no pattern for dark tea (Koicha). Tea bowls with patterns are used for light tea (Usucha). It is one of the most popular itemss, as it has many points of appreciation, including its appearance and color, and guests always hold in their hand at the ceremonies.

Kiyomizu-kyo ware, Black Raku-yaki

Kiyomizu-kyo ware, Red Raku-yaki

Hagi ware, Saido

Hagi ware, Tenmoku, by Tanaka Kohei

Kiyomizu-kyo ware, Flower Clystal

Kiyomizu-kyo ware, Murasaki Shikibu

Hagi ware, Mentori, by Shibuya Eiichi

Hagi ware, Tenmoku, by Sakakura Zen’emon

Imari-Arita ware, Nami Sakura

Kutani ware,Gold Clematis

Kutani ware, Gold Flower

Kutani ware, Gold Leaf

Mino ware, Kiyu’u

Mino ware, Cherry Blossoms

Mino ware, Yohen

Mino ware, Summer type, Oribe Nagashi

Tea whisks

A tea whisk (chasen, 茶筅) is a tool used to uniformly mix powdered green tea and hot water. For beginners in tea ceremony, it is better to use a tea whisk with 80 or 100 prongs. 80 to 100 tea whisk are easy to contain air in the tea, suitable for light tea. More than 120 tea tea whisks are suitable for mixing thick tea and require some tips to use, so it is suitable for slightly advanced users.

Golden Bamboo (100 prongs)

Black Bamboo (100 prongs)

Natural Bamboo (80 prongs)

Premium Quality (120 prongs)

Tea scoops

Chashaku (茶杓), Japanese tea scoop is a tool to put powdered green tea into Matcha bowls. Mainly made of bamboo, it is one of the most important tools among tea utensils.

Tea caddies

Chaire (茶入) is used for thick tea, and Usuchaki (薄茶器) is used mainly for light tea and a lacquer ware. Chaire is mainly made of ceramics, and one of the representative is Natsume.

Black Chaire

Hagi ware, Kohiki Futamono, by Yamato Kiyoshi

Echizen Urushi Lacquer Natsume

Oshima Urushi Lacquer Natsume

Ladle

Hishaku (柄杓), a ladle is used to pump hot and cold water from the kettle and water finger on the tea ceremony. It is made of bamboo.

2.3 x 2.1 x 16 inches

3.1 x 2.1 x 17.3 inches

2.9 x 2.3 x 16 inch

7.87×0.28 inch and 13.39×0.20 inch

Jug

Mizusashi (水差し) , the jug is a container placed near the kettle and contains water for the tea ceremony. Unfortunately, Amazon.com doesn’t have a stock of jugs yet, so here are the items on Amazon.co.jp.

Lid rest

Futaoki (蓋置), a lid rest is used to place the lid of the kettle and the ladles.

Yasaburo Tanimura Furo and Ro, set of 2

Waste-water container

Kensui (建水) is a bowl for putting hot and cold water in.

Red Tokoname ware

Stripe Tokoname ware

Green Tokoname ware

White and Black Tokoname ware

Silk clothes

Fukusa cloth is used to purify tea bowls and other tea utensils.

Orenge

Set of Red Fukusa and other

Purple and Green

Kettle

Chagama (茶釜) is a tool for boiling water, and it is a unique for the tea ceremony.

Brazer and Kettle

Hanging scrolls

Kakejiku (掛け軸), a hanging scroll represents the theme of the tea ceremony and plays the most important role. There are hanging scrolls with letters or drawings.

Carps climbing up a waterfall

Landscape

上善水如 (The Best Good is like water.)

Bamboo and 日々是好日 (Every day is a good day)

Incense containers

Kogo is a small container for putting incense, and is decorated with a vase in the room. Also, clean the room with incense.

Kiyomizu-Kyo ware, Gold Clouds

Kiyomizu-Kyo ware, Camellia

Kiyomizu-Kyo ware, Chojugiga

Kiyomizu-Kyo ware, Red Landscape

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Vase

There is no such thing as seasonal feeling that appears as flowers, and it is only a moment. Please carefully select the vase into which you will put the flower.