Tea Ware
Wood-Fired Kyusu Teapot
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A lidded side-handle teapot with a ceramic strainer cut by hand, one hole at a time.
- Rounds the astringency of ripe pu-erh, yancha and heavily roasted oolong
- One vessel, one tea — the porous body remembers what you brew
- Hot-water rinse only; never detergent
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In motion
See the glaze move
Short films from the kiln and the studio table. Tap any frame to open the player, then swipe the reel for more.
The most technically demanding object in the Bizen repertoire. Lid and body must be thrown and fired as one so that fourteen days of shrinkage leaves them still matched — a tolerance measured in fractions of a millimetre with no glaze to hide behind. Inside, the maker drills the strainer wall by hand. The iron in the clay begins conditioning your tea from the first brew, binding a portion of the tannins that carry bitterness.
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