Customize your gift set:
This handmade pottery set includes a small coffee cup of your choice, and a large leaf plate as the base. It makes serving afternoon tea convenient and fun. In fact, Mrs. Kajiwara serves coffee and a small sweet for visiting guests using this set, to thank them for making such a long trip to the mountain to see their works.
Koishiwara Pottery is known to represent the "beauty of everyday things", and you can create your own beautiful hand-made pottery set.
Choose any one of our popular coffee mug:
- Acorn Donguri
- Pink Kinoko Mushroom
- Beige Kinoko Mushroom
- Black Kinoko Mushroom
In this historic pottery town, the clay and glaze are all proudly hand-processed using only local natural minerals and burnt straw from the mountains and the rice field. As nature sings in harmony, please help yourself and pair your favorite cup and plate. And enjoy the "functional beauty" of Koishiwara-ware, as named by the founding father of Japanese Mingei craft, Soetsu Yanagi.
As things are all handmade, each one is different.
ABOUT KOISHIWARA-WARE
Koishiwara-ware takes pride in carrying over 300 years of pottery history, making "mingei" humble utilitarian works, using only locally harvested raw material. Up in the remote mountain, potters escavate rocks and minerals to process their own clay and glazes. Everything is hand-thrown and handbuilt. And many use their beautiful surrounding as their inspiration. Their work was praised by Masters Yanagi Muneyoshi and Bernard Leach during the Mingei Movement in the early 1900s as "Functional Beauty". Read the stories about Koishiwara-ware and Yamamaru Kiln.
HAND MADE, HAND-THROWN in JAPAN
Choose-your-Cup + Leaf Plate handmade pottery gift set
Cup with Lid:
Lid on 11cm (4.33")
Lid off 8cm (3.12")
Volume: 160ml (5.4 fl oz)
Large Leaf Plate: 21cm x 12cm (8.27" x 4.72")
Handmade in Japan. Color and sizes varies.
Japanese pottery and food portion is smaller than Western cuisine, check all sizes before order.