Your First Teapot... show off!

[JuliaJoJo]

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

I like the persimmon shape and the kelp that was payed over the top during firing but it doesn’t make the best tea, in my opinion. It’s not bad but it was enough to make me search for clays I liked better.

At $120 I thought I was insane to pay that much for a teapot. Oh how things have changed!

Hello BaiSao,

I am from Austin too. Really like your teapot. May I know where you bought it?

Thanks

[Victoria]

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

....May I know where you bought it?

Welcome to TeaForum @JuliaJoJo. I don’t know where @Baisao bought his first kyusu, but a google search came up with a few vendors that sell this artisans work like this one https://shihateacomfort.shop/items/5f47 ... 3c1bfe895d
Also, if you are interested you can browse a few vendors in our Japanese Teaware Vendor Recommendations thread.

[pedant]

Really like your teapot. May I know where you bought it?

also, AN used to have pots by Koshin. i'm not seeing any for sale now, but you can browse their past inventory for fun if you want:
https://artisticnippon.com/product/tokoname/koshin/

[JuliaJoJo]

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

....May I know where you bought it?

Welcome to TeaForum JuliaJoJo. I don’t know where Baisao bought his first kyusu, but a google search came up with a few vendors that sell this artisans work like this one https://shihateacomfort.shop/items/5f47 ... 3c1bfe895d
Also, if you are interested you can browse a few vendors in our Japanese Teaware Vendor Recommendations thread.

Thank you! I have one teapot from Shiha.

[JuliaJoJo]

Really like your teapot. May I know where you bought it?

also, AN used to have pots by Koshin. i'm not seeing any for sale now, but you can browse their past inventory for fun if you want:
https://artisticnippon.com/product/tokoname/koshin/

Glad to see this website here too. I watch the teapot picture everyday from this website.

[Baisao]

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

I like the persimmon shape and the kelp that was payed over the top during firing but it doesn’t make the best tea, in my opinion. It’s not bad but it was enough to make me search for clays I liked better.

At $120 I thought I was insane to pay that much for a teapot. Oh how things have changed!

Hello BaiSao,

I am from Austin too. Really like your teapot. May I know where you bought it?

Thanks

Hi there! I got it from Artist Nippon quite a long time ago. I like the persimmon shape (I have a thing for persimmons). While the clay isn’t bad by any means, I have found Japanese pots with clay characteristics that I enjoy more. I still love the pot for it’s aesthetics.

HTH

[theredbaron]

My first pot, bought in Singapore in '91, a tiny F1 pot, when i first got hooked on Chinese tea. I think it was Tea Chapter in Chinatown where i bought it. At the time i stayed in an awesome little dormatory just around the corner, owned by a whacky Singaporean ex-cop, and where i always spent some days when passing through Singapore on my travels around Asia.

[Bok]

My first pot, bought in Singapore in '91, a tiny F1 pot, when i first got hooked on Chinese tea. I think it was Tea Chapter in Chinatown where i bought it. At the time i stayed in an awesome little dormatory just around the corner, owned by a whacky Singaporean ex-cop, and where i always spent some days when passing through Singapore on my travels around Asia.

That’s a nice start!

[theredbaron]

That’s a nice start!

Thank you, I feel lucky that i have started in a period early enough, and in Asia.
Next major step was traveling through many of the famous tea regions in China, only guided by John Blofeld's Chinese Art of Tea, at the time no internet and no English language publications available. Great adventure

[teabug]

that pot looks almost nigelnagelneu (brand new).

[theredbaron]

that pot looks almost nigelnagelneu (brand new).

I didn't use it as much as i should have, for a year, when i started off, and then it was for more than a decade in storage, and once i got it out of storage i had a collection of many other, better tea pots.
Once a while, for memory's sake, i still brew a pot or so. But it nevertheless is an important pot, as it was m first, and what started me off on that journey

[Nova02]

Here's my first (and only) teapot! A high-fired, thin-walled benshan luni, 170mL. I use it for aged white teas, which I find work nicely with Yixing as they take higher temperatures to brew and have richer/deeper flavors.

[Bok]

Here's my first (and only) teapot! A high-fired, thin-walled benshan luni, 170mL. I use it for aged white teas, which I find work nicely with Yixing as they take higher temperatures to brew and have richer/deeper flavors.

Nice one! I can see how Duanni works well for White tea.

I would caution though, not to jump to conclusions to quickly – one teapot doesn't really tell you enough about Yixing to make any judgments, except concerning that one pot ; )

[wave_code]

Going through boxes and packing up the teaware for another move, found my first pot. Bought it on impulse really just because it was so small and I liked the shape, was very cheap, but of course its not good clay and smells like pencil shavings inside. Its got a badly stamped mark of a fish spouting water on the sides. The stamp on the bottom has 2011 on it, but I am clueless about the seal- maybe this was made a promotional item/giveaway gift for some kind of event?

[mbanu]

I'm astonished that nobody's first teapot was an English teapot! Or at least an English knock-off, like mine was. I'm a bad photographer, but maybe this is the test. My first teapot was a Chinese-made Blue Willow knock-off. I feel there must be a word for this, as Blue Willow was a knock-off of Chinese blue-and-white when it was expensive and rare and English ceramics were cheap, while mine was a knock-off of Blue Willow when (new) English ceramics were expensive and rare and Chinese ceramics were cheap. So a knock-off of a knock-off.

My second teapot (if I remember correctly) was a second-hand English-made Brown Betty, a pot perfectly designed for Assam-with-milk. Reading the Yixing thread, with folks mentioning having high-fired Yixing that doesn't mute at all, I wonder if the large versions of these high-fired pots were the original inspiration for the glazed Brown Betties...