Japanese Tea Ceremony Natsume Tea Caddy Hinged Lid Shunkei (OakSt) POSIM Please watch the video for

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5″ Diameter

The overall finish combines black ground with red-lacquered carved relief and traces of gilt — a treatment associated with southern Chinese folk craft of the late Qing and Republic periods

This is a vintage Japanese hand thrown ceramic Bizen ware vase for flowers or any other decoration that could use a vessel of this size and shape

This is a fine professional grade blade originally thought to be used as a bamboo splitting knife

Japanese Tea Ceremony Natsume Tea Caddy Hinged Lid Shunkei (OakSt) POSIM Please watch the video forThis is a vintage Japanese chu natsume or tea caddy used in the chanoyu tea ceremony. It holds the powdered green tea called matcha. A quality natsume such as this is made of turn wood, typically hinoki or Japanese cypress. The wood is lacquered in the traditional Japanese method with over 20 coats of urushi lacquer. Beautifully lacquered in clear urushi. Having been only very sparingly and lovingly used for decades this natsume remains in fine