Raku Matcha bowls, traditional lead glazed earthenware pottery from Kyoto Prefecture on Amazon.com

Do you know that Matcha bowls have classes? For Koicha ( exceptionally dark Matcha) of the tea ceremony, it is the rule to choose the high-class tea bowls. Basically, a plain Matcha bowls is high grade and the one with the pattern is lower.

And there is a proverb in the world of the tea ceremony. “First Raku, second Hagi, and third Karatsu”. They are proper pottery for the tea ceremony.

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Custermizing your Japanese Matcha tea set for the ceremony

Let's find only your Matcha tea set! Tea whisk, tea spoon, tea bowl pottery...When you hope to try tea ceremony, it is good to buy a starter kit. You can instantly experient the Japanese culture with it. But if you intend to drink Matcha green tea on a daily basis, is it enough? You had better have proper utensils if not top quality products. Especially, there are thousands of Matcha tea bowl. Don't you think that you might as well choose the bowl what you like? ...

Hagi ware is the pottery from Yamaguchi Prefecture, and Karatsu ware is from Saga Prefecture.

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Hagi-yaki Japanese matcha bowls for sale

Hagi ware pottery, born for matcha chawan cupsIn Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568-1600), the long provincial war in Japan was about to end. The influential daimyos and samurais had to have the social skills for building up the good hierarchical or diplomatic relationships. What most of them could do was the tea ceremony. The tea ceremony had been completed by Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591). Above all, he emphasised to have the mind of quiet simplicity and subdued refinement. That is "wabi&quo...

But the most high-ranking tea bowl is Raku ware from Kyoto Prefecture. Raku-yaki is pottery born in Kyoto about 400 years ago. Its feature is that it is made in consideration of the ease of use in the tea ceremony of Koicha. Because the area around the bottom of the green tea bowl is wide, it is easy to turn the tea ceremony.

Raku ware is roughly divided into black and red bowls, and the baking temperature is about 1000 degrees for black and about 800 degrees for red.