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Teachronicles wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:42 am

Victoria wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 4:12 am

Teachronicles, very nice Sou kyusu, proportions and clay are super. I would recommend to pair with sencha and high mountain oolong. Not roasted DongDing. The sweet high mountain oils don’t detract from sencha. I do use almost boiling water to clean pot before air drying though.. High mountain and sencha pair well in a shared pot

No worries Victoria, just a test. I'll be trying high mountain next. Though, I don't drink high mountain a lot and sencha nearly never and would hate to see the pot seldom used. I'll be trying all sorts of teas and want to see if it benefits any of my more frequently drunk teas positively. Cheers -matt

What, hardly any sencha, wow

Haha probably do not read that everyday in a thread about kyusu! I can top it and say I never drink Sencha, unless I am gifted one (which so far only happened once!).

Jo wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:07 am

Teachronicles wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:42 am

Victoria wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 4:12 am

Teachronicles, very nice Sou kyusu, proportions and clay are super. I would recommend to pair with sencha and high mountain oolong. Not roasted DongDing. The sweet high mountain oils don’t detract from sencha. I do use almost boiling water to clean pot before air drying though.. High mountain and sencha pair well in a shared pot

No worries Victoria, just a test. I'll be trying high mountain next. Though, I don't drink high mountain a lot and sencha nearly never and would hate to see the pot seldom used. I'll be trying all sorts of teas and want to see if it benefits any of my more frequently drunk teas positively. Cheers -matt

What, hardly any sencha, wow

I know. Probably the complete opposite of you and chip. I like Chinese greens more

That said, Japanese clays seem to do really well with any greenish kind of tea, be it Sencha, Chinese greens or High mountain oolong. All my best results with Taiwan green oolong were with clays like Hokujo or Kobiwako, the res clay of the Yamada clan seems to work equally well.

Bok wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:45 pm

Haha probably do not read that everyday in a thread about kyusu! I can top it and say I never drink Sencha, unless I am gifted one (which so far only happened once!).

+1 I also drink sencha very very rarely, mostly gifts. But I really enjoy Japanese wares. It's a quite inspiring example of a culture building their own aesthetic tradition of teaware outside of China and bringing it to very high levels

Bok wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:45 pm

Haha probably do not read that everyday in a thread about kyusu! I can top it and say I never drink Sencha, unless I am gifted one (which so far only happened once!).

Hi Bok, I did not mean to infer that kyusu were only for sencha, I was just saying wow, no sencha

Teachronicles wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:09 pm

Jo wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:07 am

Teachronicles wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:42 am

No worries Victoria, just a test. I'll be trying high mountain next. Though, I don't drink high mountain a lot and sencha nearly never and would hate to see the pot seldom used. I'll be trying all sorts of teas and want to see if it benefits any of my more frequently drunk teas positively. Cheers -matt

What, hardly any sencha, wow

I know. Probably the complete opposite of you and chip. I like Chinese greens more

Teachronicles, you are correct on that, we definently prefer Japanese green tea.

Different strokes for different folks, but I love learning all about everyone and their tea preferences . Wouldn't be interesting if we all enjoyed the same teas.

steanze wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:35 pm

Bok wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:45 pm

Haha probably do not read that everyday in a thread about kyusu! I can top it and say I never drink Sencha, unless I am gifted one (which so far only happened once!).

+1 I also drink sencha very very rarely, mostly gifts. But I really enjoy Japanese wares. It's a quite inspiring example of a culture building their own aesthetic tradition of teaware outside of China and bringing it to very high levels

+ 1 steanze on the Japanese teaware.
I can venture to say that we enjoy them almost 'too much", if you get my drift

Jo wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:50 pm

I can venture to say that we enjoy them almost 'too much", if you get my drift

Seeing your 12 days of kyusu, definitely not in little dosages!

Bok wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:12 pm

Jo wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:50 pm

I can venture to say that we enjoy them almost 'too much", if you get my drift

Seeing your 12 days of kyusu, definitely not in little dosages!

We should be resuming that tea experiment very soon, we are both almost 100 percent better.

Victoria wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 29, 2019 4:12 am

Teachronicles, very nice Sou kyusu, proportions and clay are super. I would recommend to pair with sencha and high mountain oolong. Not roasted DongDing. The sweet high mountain oils don’t detract from sencha. I do use almost boiling water to clean pot before air drying though.. High mountain and sencha pair well in a shared pot

Victoria, the yamada sou pot does indeed brew delicious high mountain and sencha after running further tests. I think I will take your advice and dedicate it to those two tea types. I also got a kobiwako pot from hojo, which, so far I like high mountain in more than sencha. I prefer the sencha made in the sou more.

Hi, I need you advise, I am searching for the author of these banko pots, I think the author is the same as chops look similar. with bigger one not being so nicely done. the button on the lid of small one is rotating:). Would you be able to read the chop and advise? Thank you. I am also cleaning newly acquired Iroku Mori III kyusu and will post after i am done with it.

Hi lopin, where did you get these pots from?
The seals say Banko(-yaki) [萬古] and Kuwana [桑名].
Kuwana is an area of Yokkaichi town in Mie Prefecture near Nagoya.
This is not attributed to an artist but to a workshop or kiln located in Kuwana.

Hi Elise, many thanks. i got them from japanese ebay about one year back. do they seem old/valuable to you? I like them very much and they produce nice round tea.

Elise, can you also please read this? this is lovely small pot, that was market like tokoname but seems more like banko to me, high metalic sound. thank you