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The instruments.

The tools of chadō, made by the hands that still know how. Bamboo whisks from Takayama, ceramic bowls from a four-hundred-year-old kiln in Fukuoka, scoops cut by feel.

Featured · 04.01

A hundred and twenty tines, hand-cut from a single stem of bamboo.

A chasen — the bamboo whisk used in chadō — photographed at scale.
茶筅 chasenThe whisk TakayamaNara, since 1573 One bambooOne piece, hand-split ¥ 7,800Add to bowl →
Tea bowls · 04.02 / 04.03

Takatoriyaki — four hundred and twenty years on.

Founded in 1600 as the official kiln for the Kuroda clan in Chikuzen — now Fukuoka — the Takatoriyaki Souke lineage has shaped tea-ceremony vessels for thirteen generations. Each piece on this page was thrown, glazed, and signed by the hand of Takatori Hachizan XIII.

Wangata tea bowl by Takatori Hachizan XIII.

Wangata — 椀形

¥ 198,000

A classical bowl form. Soft terracotta body crossed by a single drift of pale-blue glaze — quiet, deliberate, unrepeatable.

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Maekiri tea bowl by Takatori Hachizan XIII.

Maekiri — 前切

¥ 280,500

A bowl whose front edge is intentionally cut — a single gesture, four centuries of practice. Charcoal-and-amber glaze.

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Chashaku — bamboo tea scoop.

Chashaku — 茶杓

¥ 4,200

A single arc of curved bamboo. Measures the precise gram of leaf for each bowl, by feel.

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