Description

Japanese tea bowl (Chawan), white, 200ml, 9 x 6 cm. The medium-sized Japanese porcelain tea bowl in elegant white color and is perfectly suitable for enjoying Japanese green tea or any other type of tea. The rather common, medium size of this Japanese tea bowl fits the everyday tea consumtion just as well as tea samplings or tea rounds.

The chawan, which is both the Chinese and the Japanese word for tea bowl, had been brought to Japan from China starting from the 13th century, but just as with their characteristic side handle teapots (Kyusu), the Japanese soon began to develop and produce their own design preferences, resulting in the typical tapered Japanese tea bowl as we know it and being popular in Japan today along with the taller and straighter “Yunomi” design.

Similar to the popular Chinese method of brewing tea in a gaiwan as an alternative to using a Chinese teapot, the Japanese tea bowl is often not only used to drink tea, but also to prepare it in the first place. This applies especially to Japanese Matcha tea, where Matcha tea bowls are frequently used to prepare Matcha tea before drinking it from the same cup.

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