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in tokyo, i'd hit thés du japon's new shop: https://japaneseteasommelier.wordpress. ... ten-years/
see also viewtopic.php?f=44&t=842

interesting. i look forward to hearing others' thoughts, but here's my current, uneducated opinion... 1) must shudei come from Tokoname and nowhere else? to me, shudei just means japanese red clay, but unless someone tells me otherwise, i assume it's from tokoname. many people call 'modern', iron-do...

Relevant to the rabbit trail regarding shudei &/or mayake. What is 100% proper? I really do not know. ./download/file.php?id=4114 hey, i remember that yohen kyusu on the left! i almost bought it back in feb 2019! very nice. i'm glad a friend has it. :mrgreen: idk, mayake is a technique, and shudei ...

This is another example of wood fired shudei. The red area is where oxidative gasses and carbon we’re unable to transform the clay. ./download/file.php?id=4109 ./download/file.php?id=4108 Imo it looks like it was actually ground there revealing the non-reduced clay below. I say this despite knowing...

Agreed, awesome pot. Im tempted too but have so much teaware.

haha. well, even though they kicked some of us out and deleted some worthwhile content, they still continue to host a majority of the old, valuable stuff, and i thank them for that. doing that doesn't cost that much, but it's not free, either. i personally still sometimes search their site (mostly v...

welcome, @johnsonmen and @peterlista! good to have you here!

welcome, friends!

nice article, thank you. haha, i love that book ( For All the Tea in China ). i think Frisbeehead recommended it to me some years ago. that's some serious industrial espionage. Tea is not made exclusively from leaves of the camellia siniensis species. yes, we agree: https://i.imgur.com/CwnsWsE.png

awesome, thanks for posting! when i saw him laying out his lines on the workpiece with a pen, my first thought was, "i wish i had a router like this guy." and then i saw him tying the workpiece to a tree. nvm, he definitely does not have one! doesn't even have an electric drill. :mrgreen: also, i'm ...

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Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:59 pm

My first teapot was a kyusu made by Kato Tadaomi, aka “Koshin”.

nice! i got one of those in the same order as the gyokudo in my previous post, but it was a gift for someone, so i didn't count it.
that was my first ever order with artistic nippon.

happy new year, everyone! fun topic. thanks, Bok . my first tea tools.jpg my very first tea tools were mugs. i'd use two of them at a time: one acted as a tea pot, and i'd simply decant into a second one used for drinking. sometimes i'd use a spoon as a strainer. this mostly works fine, and it's al...

this was my first nice teapot. i got it in 2012. my thoughts from back then: a tokoname kyusu by UMEHARA Gyokudo (1936-2012; RIP) i got from artisticnippon. i think the "shochikubai" motifs were done by scratching away the reduction-fired surface to reveal the orange-red clay below. i really love e...

welcome to the forum, @davidmichaelkimler! i moved your post to the teaware area.

Thank you for providing this site! Only been around for a couple months but I'm getting a lot of info and contacts on tea. :mrgreen: thanks, thommes Do you have a post pinned somewhere that lists the features that have been suggested, being implemented, won't be implemented? I have several ideas bu...