Tame-nuri Lacquer CHABAKO Set with Pine Maki-e | CHABAKO -Japanese Tea Box

A complete chabako — everything needed to prepare matcha, resting together in one lacquered box.

The lid carries a pine motif drawn in fine gold lines. The pine stays green through every season; the trailing vine runs unbroken — an auspicious pairing, long favored on utensils meant to last.

Lift the lid, and the set appears, piece by piece: a small chawan (tea bowl); a natsume (tea caddy) and chasen-zutsu (whisk case) bearing a gold chrysanthemum-and-paulownia motif; a furidashi jar for small sweets; a chakin cloth and its case; a bamboo chashaku in its sleeve; two brocade shifuku pouches; a fukusa silk cloth; the kakegō inner tray; and an uguisu — the small metal pin that holds the whisk upright, used in the Urasenke "moon" procedure.

The wooden storage box is inscribed "Rikyū-gata Chabako" — the classic Rikyū form.

Unsigned, as most utensils of this kind are. What we can confirm, we list below; what we cannot confirm, we do not write.

A chabako temae uses no ladle and no water jar — hot water is poured straight from the kettle. An electric kettle is all you need. A guide to a simple, four-utensil way of tea is enclosed with every box.