Hirotaka Umehara: Compact Columnar Tobikanna Kyūsu

Quick brews, easy cleaning

One advantage of a short, straight body wall for a teapot, as in this compact columnar (〆切立) style, is the ease in cleaning. That is particularly useful when you need to quickly change to another batch of tea. This wide opening, short outer wall selection is suitable not only for Japanese greens, but also for other larger leaf size tea varieties that you intend to make tea with using shorter infusion time.

Master Umehara has inherited the renowned Gyokuko Master’s workshop 玉光陶園 as the second generation successor not because of bloodline, but for the dedication and talents he has shown through decades of outputs, exhibitions and awards. While tobikanna (飛びカンナ) surface finish treatment is practiced by other artists, achieving such meticulous control for this intense pattern is another one of the Master’s most recognisable style, such as his Jade Luster classic utilitarian kyūsu that we have sold out.

This is a handmade item. Each individual piece delivered may have slight variations in colour, pattern, shape and details from the particular one used in these pictures. Please note also that because of the unique and tiny surface crystalisation of this item, the colours rendered in the photos under the photo lights maybe slightly different when under a different lighting environment.