New · Made in Gifu, Japan
Mino-yaki · hand-painted matcha bowl · gift box
Camellia Matcha Bowl, Hand-Painted
Red camellias and dark leaves, painted by hand round the whole bowl.
$79 Free shipping to 32 countries
Order by November 20 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
Take both sets in one box: Matcha Set: Four Flower Bowls & Whisk · $199 (save $137)
$59 when added to any other piece in your order: it travels in the same box.
A gift for a new home
Leaves Fukuoka within one week by tracked airmail.
What buyers say · ★★★★★ on Etsy
“Received updates regarding the item I purchased and when it arrived could tell that it was packed with care; my fragile ceramic bunny arrived in perfect condition! A wonderful purchase and I would buy from this shop again”
Jessica · United States
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“Item was as described and in photos shown. Excellent quality. Seller very knowledgable and took the time to explain everything”
Tiang N. · Australia
- Made in Japan. Mino ware, from Gifu prefecture.
- 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 tracked airmail within one week. Order $100 or more and it flies EMS express.
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
The camellia, tsubaki, flowers in the coldest weeks of the Japanese winter, when almost nothing else does. When it is finished it does not drop its petals one by one. The whole flower falls at once, still perfect, onto the ground.
A later story says samurai avoided camellias because a flower that falls whole looked too much like a head. In fact the shoguns of Edo loved them, and so did the tea masters. For them the camellia was the flower of winter, and a single bud in a bamboo vase was all a tea room needed. Same flower, two ways of looking.
The craft
Mino-yaki, made in Japan. Hand-painted with wax-resist, so the glaze rolls off the painted parts and every bowl comes out a little different from the next. Wash by hand; not for the oven.
Living with it
A winter bowl. Hot matcha on a dark morning, both hands round it. If you are at your best when everyone else is hibernating, this one is yours. Or give it to the friend who is.
• Mino-yaki, hand-painted with wax-resist • Bowl only (no whisk) • Gift box, new • 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.