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I never got around to posting about the teaware I got in Japan last December, so here we go!

In Uji, I went to the beautiful Asahiyaki gallery, where I bought four cups. I only had mugs to drink larger quantities of tea at home, and had been wanting hand made, smaller cups for a while, so those fit my wishes perfectly! They're 100ml, fit nicely in the hand and have a texture that is somehow both smooth and rough. I also love that the green color comes from pine ash glaze, created from the wood burnt to heat up the kiln! I use them all the time at home, and never get tired of admiring them 🍵

Later, in Tōkyō, I decided to look for a kyūsu because I usually use a gaiwan at home, which isn't practical for the thin leaves of Japanese green teas. The internet directed me to the Thés du Japon shop in Taitō, which happened to be owned by a fellow French person, who's also the author of a tea blog I've read through quite a bit : Japanese Tea Sommelier! There, I found (actually, my wife chose it!) a beautiful 250ml kyūsu made by Yūsen II in Tokoname. The unglazed clay is really smooth and I love the "scales" that have been created by removing small slices of clay from around the pot 🐍

Finally, on our last evening in Japan, we decided to go to the Japan Traditional Crafts Aoyama Square shop in Minato. Officially I was looking for miso soup lacquered bowls, but I ended up leaving with the smallest tea scoop I ever laid eyes upon! It was made in Tsubame, a city known for its beautiful tsuiki-dōki copperware tradition. It has a fascinating blue hue, and is perfect for rolled oolongs and small amounts of Japanese green teas 💚

I really love all of the teaware I found in Japan. They always make a simple moment more special by reminding me both of my travels and of the fact that they were carefully handcrafted on the other side of the globe only to end up in my small Finnish flat! How lucky I feel to handle all of them regularly!

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dangocha gyokuro uji 2024 no.351 from zhao zhou. this tea is really vegetal with a thick mouth feel. i have never tasted a green tea quite like it!🍵

#dangocha #gyokuro #uji #zhaozhou #greentea #japanesetea #budapest #hungary #kyusu #teapot

Hadn't posted anything #tea -related in the last 4 or 5 months due to the fact I had to move to a new country and left almost all my stuff in Ukraine.
I'm not sure that I'll see my collection again, so, till this day, I had only one #kyusu by #Koshin and brewed mostly in a thermos I bought in #SaoPaolo.
But today, I went for a grandpa-style brewing cup, and some ass-cheap noname #JJM #HongCha, so bear with me, @tea people!