Dictionary

Chawan-ya Kyubei (Kyubei also wan kyuu is also known as Kyurobei) was a pottery merchant in Sanjo Kawaramachi, Kyoto. Du...

Chawan-gama (Tea bowl kiln)In 1700, a court case broke out between the Shiinomine potters of Hizen Province (Saga Prefec...

OoguroKizaemon WellChawan (tea bowl) was originally named for serving tea, but later came to refer to a wide range of ce...

Chatsubo (tea urn)Seikou (Seikou, blue incense)In a very broad sense, chatsubo is used to refer to a pot used to hold te...

ChadamariChadamari is a faintly Tomoe-shaped depression on the front surface of a matcha bowl and is considered one of t...

A Chinese tea classic. Written by Lu Yu, who is considered the founder of tea. Lu Yu was a man who lived around the time...

Seikou (Seikou, blue incense)One of the Song dynasty tea pots. The Chado Sente and Chaji Hiroku (Secret Records of Tea C...

In a broad sense, a set of utensils necessary for the tea ceremony and sencha. In a narrower sense, tea containers for t...

Tea containerA small ceramic jar used to hold powdered tea. Since the tea ceremony became popular, it has been widely re...

The name "kaolin" refers to Chinese Kaoling clay, which is composed mainly of kaolinite (Al2O32SiO22H2O). It is also cal...

Chidori no Koro (Chidori Incense Burner)A great masterpiece. A celadon incense burner. The "Gan-kan Meibutsu-ki" (Record...

Chidori (staggered plovers)Specialty. Raku ware tea bowl, black, one of the seven types of non-kou. According to Kanamor...