All of our Matcha Bowls / Accessories are carefully selected for their function, value, and style. We have a wide variety of items: handmade matcha bowls, bamboo accessories for matcha, and much more.
RANSAI means indigo blue color. This unique noble blue color is completely original to the artisan, Kyoshitu Sasaki. While based on RAKU-yaki's traditional style, this masterpiece is the result of his constant research and challenge, and is filled with the latest ideas at the moment......
This KASEYU KURO CHAWAN – Rikyu GONOMI is a genuine Matcha bowl, following the traditional Raku-yaki method. Formed by a traditional method, which does not use a potter's wheel, the bowl is simple yet exquisitely asymmetrical upon closer inspection. This is the ultimate form pursued by Sen no Rikyu over his lifetime....
This AKA CHAWAN is quite unique work, which is made with an avant-garde spirit while strictly adhering to traditional Raku-yaki techniques. ISO no SHIRABE means the quiet lapping of the waves on the rocky shore. The translucent white glaze, specially formulated, envelops the Matcha bowl like a wave that comes and goes.....
This ORIBE CHAWAN is Raku-Yaki, yet avant-garde, with free inspiration and a relaxed mood. ORIBE means Furuta Oribe(1563-1615), a Japanese general of the Warring States period. He is famous as one of the disciples of Sen no Rikyu(1522-1591), the founder of the Japanese tea ceremony......
This TANSAI AKA CHAWAN - YOSHINO no SAKURA is a pale and beautiful Matcha bowl that represents the famous cherry blossom scenery of Yoshino town, Nara Prefecture. While based on the traditional Raku-Yaki form, it is a masterpiece with a unique charm that is unprecedented in its history......
TSURUGIDAKE is a famous mountain range in Japan, about 3,000 meters above sea level. This mountain in Toyama Prefecture is one of the few mountains in Japan with an existing glacier. TSURUGIDAKE means "Mountain of Swords" and its steepness is so extreme that it has been said for centuries to be extremely dangerous to climb.......
This Matcha bowl is flat and open style. The flat style was originally developed in order to choreograph coolness in the summer season in the Middle Ages. This HANADA color is quite elegant and beautiful like a clear blue sky or crystal clear aqua ocean...
The combination of crane and turtle attract our attention. Both of them are regarded as auspicious objects, symbolizing longevity. Crane is stamped outside the bowl, and beak, head, wing and foot are colored black by iron constituent in glaze. Turtle is on the rim of the bowl. This style is also one of the Kyo-Yaki traditional techniques...
YOMOGI means mugwort, and U means growing thickly in Japanese. The painting on the bowl focuses on Suetsumu Hana whose garden was full of mugwort grasses, and her reunion with Hikaru Genji, whom she had loved faithfully for a long time....
In Japan, Raku-yaki is the highest grade Matcha bowl used for the tea ceremony. Having a flat form Matcha bowl is the ultimate luxury. The taste of Matcha brewed in this bowl is subtle elegance. This Matcha bowl is ideal for the summer season...
In Japan, Raku-yaki is the highest grade Matcha bowl used for the tea ceremony. Having a flat form Matcha bowl is the ultimate luxury. The taste of Matcha brewed in this bowl is subtle elegance. This Matcha bowl is ideal for the summer season...
SAKURA means cherry blossoms in Japanese. Fully bloomed SAKURA growing from a slender branch makes us feel the strength of nature. In Japan, we say that SAKURA are beautiful because there is an end. This SAKURA ZU represents the world of Japanese aesthetics known as WABI SABI...
HOTARU means firefly in Japanese. HOTARU is also one of the stories in the Tale of Genji. This Matcha bowl portrays the scene where Hikaru Genji released fireflies on this romantic night. They fly in all directions, and the lights that the fireflies produce are colored in yellow and gold...
This Matcha bowl features one of the quintessential and well-loved works by Hokusai Katsushika (1760 - 1849). It is said that Hokusai is the most famous UKIYOE Japanese woodblock print artist and influenced the impressionist painters such as Vincent van Gogh...
This brilliant blue color crystal glaze is very beautiful. It is difficult to make the glaze colored like this brilliant blue and to create a precise crystal pattern. It requires delicate temperature management in the kiln and sensitive composition of glaze...
SEI means blue in Japanese. SEIHAKUJI is a kind of HAKUJI (white porcelain) with a glaze that is a beautiful light blue. SEIHAKUJI was held in high esteem by nobles such as Japanese feudal lords. The pale blue color evokes a clean and calm atmosphere...
MATSU TAKA ZU was painted for the OHIROMA great hall, where is decorated with paintings that honored the SHOGUN emperor. When the DAIMYO vassal lords looked up to see the SHOGUN emperor, they felt as if the great pine tree arced above the SHOGUN emperor...
KIKU ZU was painted for the KUROSHOIN rooms, where the SHOGUN emperor carried out everyday tasks with his followers, are decorated with relaxing, elegant, and gentle paintings of birds, flowers, trees, and so on in order to create an atmosphere of abundant fertility...
CHIKURIN GUNKO ZU was painted for the west wing of TOHZAMURAI great entrance hall, where is decorated with strong, dynamic paintings in order to show the dignity of the SHOGUN emperor to DAIMYO vassal lords. DAIMYO vassal lords should have felt awed to see paintings of the tiger pride...
ROGAN ZU was painted for the anterooms of the SHIKIDAI rooms, where are decorated with affable, kindly, and elegant paintings to cultivate a feeling of warm hospitality. This ROGAN ZU is popular because of the affable, kindly, and elegant atmosphere...
YOMOGI means mugwort, and U means growing thickly in Japanese. The painting on the bowl focuses on Suetsumu Hana whose garden was full of mugwort grasses, and her reunion with Hikaru Genji, whom she had loved faithfully for a long time....
HOTARU means firefly in Japanese. HOTARU is also one of the stories in the Tale of Genji. This Matcha bowl portrays the scene where Hikaru Genji released fireflies on this romantic night. They fly in all directions, and the lights that the fireflies produce are colored in yellow and gold...
The sides of this piece are deliberately and boldly whittled away. It evokes a very powerful impression, as though we are gazing upon a great rocky cliff. The foot of this bowl is intentionally finished low and the scene from the bottom to the middle of the side is sublime and tension-filled...
The form of this bowl faithfully reproduces the original work of Kohetsu Honami. Kohetsu is famous for producing novel and avant-garde works. The round shape like this OTOKOZE bowl is a textbook example. Its form and size surprisingly fit into both hands when drinking Matcha, in contrast with the unique and novel appearance...
KURO IWANAMI means waves crashing on black rocks in Japanese. This Matcha bowl is very avant-garde, yet it is based on traditional techniques, and created uniquely by the artisan, Mr. Sako. It is ideal for tea ceremonies, and holding it in both hands is inexplicably calming.
KURO IWANAMI means waves crashing on black rocks in Japanese. This Matcha bowl is very avant-garde, yet it is based on traditional techniques, and created uniquely by the artisan, Mr. Sako. It is ideal for tea ceremonies, and holding it in both hands is inexplicably calming.
KURO IWANAMI means waves crashing on black rocks in Japanese. This Matcha bowl is very avant-garde, yet it is based on traditional techniques, and created uniquely by the artisan, Mr. Sako. It is ideal for tea ceremonies, and holding it in both hands is inexplicably calming.
RANSAI means indigo blue color. This unique noble blue color is completely original to the artisan, Kyoshitu Sasaki. While based on RAKU-yaki's traditional style, this masterpiece is the result of his constant research and challenge, and is filled with the latest ideas at the moment......
This KASEYU KURO CHAWAN – Rikyu GONOMI is a genuine Matcha bowl, following the traditional Raku-yaki method. Formed by a traditional method, which does not use a potter's wheel, the bowl is simple yet exquisitely asymmetrical upon closer inspection. This is the ultimate form pursued by Sen no Rikyu over his lifetime....
This AKA CHAWAN is quite unique work, which is made with an avant-garde spirit while strictly adhering to traditional Raku-yaki techniques. ISO no SHIRABE means the quiet lapping of the waves on the rocky shore. The translucent white glaze, specially formulated, envelops the Matcha bowl like a wave that comes and goes.....
This ORIBE CHAWAN is Raku-Yaki, yet avant-garde, with free inspiration and a relaxed mood. ORIBE means Furuta Oribe(1563-1615), a Japanese general of the Warring States period. He is famous as one of the disciples of Sen no Rikyu(1522-1591), the founder of the Japanese tea ceremony......
This TANSAI AKA CHAWAN - YOSHINO no SAKURA is a pale and beautiful Matcha bowl that represents the famous cherry blossom scenery of Yoshino town, Nara Prefecture. While based on the traditional Raku-Yaki form, it is a masterpiece with a unique charm that is unprecedented in its history......
TSURUGIDAKE is a famous mountain range in Japan, about 3,000 meters above sea level. This mountain in Toyama Prefecture is one of the few mountains in Japan with an existing glacier. TSURUGIDAKE means "Mountain of Swords" and its steepness is so extreme that it has been said for centuries to be extremely dangerous to climb.......
NATSUME is a Matcha container traditionally used in the Japanese tea ceremony. MATSU means pine, and TSURU means crane in Japanese. Both of them have been regarded as the traditional auspicious composition symbolizing longevity in Japan...
This canister expresses the four seasons in Japan by cherry blossoms and maple leaves. All flowers and leaves flutter elegantly in this canister. TAME is a specific color of lacquer craft. The color is a rich dark brown, and it is one of the most traditional colors of Yamanaka Nuri...
This Copper Matcha Container is handmade container for Matcha which we Hibiki-an specially order for our customers. Copper container is very suitable for the preservation of Matcha powder since this is high air-tightness and protected against moisture, and copper itself has an antibacterial effect...
The wood is from the Zelkova tree, known as KEYAKI in Japan. Japanese artisans use KEYAKI for traditional wooden lacquer because the wood is strong and the grain is quite beautiful. KURO means black, and MEHAJIKI is one of the craft techniques used to paint lacquer. The glossy and deep black color evokes a noble and majestic atmosphere...
The stripe design on this tea container is called KOMA NURI in Japanese. KOMA means a toy spinning top, and NURI means painting in Japanese. KOMA is a traditional toy, played with during the New Year holiday celebration in Japan, and is said to be an auspicious item...