Vintage · Made in Japan · one of one
Portable tea set · plum blossom bowl · 12 cm
nodate matcha tea set
A portable set for making matcha outdoors: a bowl painted with plum blossom, a bamboo whisk with its travel case, and a bamboo tea scoop.
$150 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
Leaves Fukuoka within three business days by EMS, with tracking.
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- Made in Japan. Made in Japan, found in Japan, and sent to you from Fukuoka.
- One of one. This exact piece, photographed in our studio 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 three business days, 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 autumn of 1587, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the most powerful man in Japan, put up notices all over Kyoto. He would hold a great tea gathering in the pine woods of Kitano Shrine, and anyone could come, farmer or lord, as long as they brought a kettle, a bowl and something to sit on. Around a thousand tea places sprang up among the trees. Hideyoshi himself served tea, and so did Sen no Rikyū. It was meant to last ten days. It ended after one, and nobody is quite sure why.
Tea in the open air is called nodate, and this set is made for it.
The craft
A ceramic matcha bowl hand-painted with plum blossom, the first flower of the year. With it, a bamboo whisk, chasen, which keeps its shape in a dedicated case, and a bamboo scoop, chashaku, for measuring the tea.
Living with it
Pack it for a picnic, a garden, a balcony on the first warm morning. If you have been meaning to start a small daily ritual, this is about as small as it gets. A gift for a friend who loves matcha, or one who likes to be outside.
• Vintage
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.