Tokoname Japanese Clay Teapots - Extra Flat

 
 

Artist: Jinshu ( Ito Seiji )
Kiln: Jinshu Touen
Strainer-style: Clay sesame
Packaging: Cardboard box

This impossibly flat teapot is spectacular in appearance and in feel. It is a marvel of engineering that Jinshu managed to build a clay sesame strainer into a space where little space was available. The teapot has a confident, nicely balanced feeling and is ultra smooth to the touch. The small capacity of this teapots suggests that Jinshu had a a very special purpose in mind for this stunning teapot, perhaps as a special vessel just for obtaining a few sips of sweet Gyokuro.

The teapot has a wide opening, and I was curious to see how the vessel performed with large leaf Chinese teas. I floated a few Fenghuang Dan Cong leaves in the teapot as my friend in Taiwan in apt to do in a small teacup, and was quite happy with the delicious results. In fact, I have used this teapot to sample several new teas and for me, it shines every time.