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Bowls made in Japan · four matcha bowls and a bamboo whisk · gift boxes
Matcha Set: Four Flower Bowls & Whisk
Camellia in the coldest weeks, plum as winter ends, cherry when spring comes. Four matcha bowls that follow Japan's flowers out of the cold, and one bamboo whisk.
$199 Free shipping to 32 countries
Order by December 8 to make sure it arrives before Christmas.
We ship to mainland China: free, tracked. Import duties, if any, are paid on delivery. Where we ship
A gift for a new home · a wedding · luck and protection
Leaves Fukuoka within one week by EMS, with tracking.
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- Where it is made. The four bowls are made in Japan. The bamboo whisk comes in the maker's gift set.
- New, never used. Checked and packed by hand in Fukuoka.
- Returns within 14 days of delivery. Not right? Send it back as it came and we refund the full price, return postage included.
- Packed safely, sent by EMS within one week, fully insured, with tracking.
Duties, checkout and extras
- ★ 5.0 on Etsy · Star Seller. Read the reviews ↗
- Import tax. It depends on your country; if any is due, it is collected on delivery.
- US import duties. Already included in the price: nothing to pay at your door.
- Secure checkout by Stripe — cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay. No account needed.
- Two pieces, one parcel. Each extra piece in the same order is $15 off at checkout.
- Orders of $200 or more travel with a gift to keep: Japanese chopsticks with a rest in a paulownia box, or a Nara kaya-cloth handkerchief.
The story
In the spring of 1598, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had united Japan, had seven hundred cherry trees planted at Daigo-ji in Kyoto, then invited some thirteen hundred guests to sit under them. It was the most lavish flower-viewing party Japan had ever seen. Five months later Hideyoshi was dead. Daigo-ji is still one of Kyoto's great cherry gardens.
Making tea in the open air is called nodate.
The craft
Made in Japan; three of the four bowls are Mino-yaki. Two bowls are kohiki, a white coat over the clay that looks dusted with powder: one with pink-red cherry blossom, one with a red plum branch touched with gold. The camellia is hand-painted with wax-resist. The smallest is earthenware, in a pattern called Man'yō sōka. Only the kohiki cherry bowl is microwave and dishwasher safe; wash the others by hand. None go in the oven.
Living with it
Four bowls, four people, one whisk passed round. You may be the person who notices the first buds before anyone else.
• Four matcha bowls, one bamboo whisk (chasen) in a tube • Each in a gift box, new • Bowls made in Japan
How it travels
Packed safely, insured in full
Every piece is packed by hand in Fukuoka inside a sturdy 3 mm corrugated carton, cushioned all round with air pillows so it cannot move. It travels with tracking all the way to your door: by EMS, insured for its full value, on orders of $100 or more, and by tracked airmail below that.
A question about this piece — size, marks, condition? Ask the house, we answer within a day.