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aya_s wrote:Beautiful!

I do rather wish they'd make a pot one day with a handle on the other side for left-handed folks. I always pour my Japanese tea out away from me into the cup, heh.

Some of Toru's Tokoname listings have left handed versions that are also in stock but you won't see them unless you open the web page for that specific product. He also usually has some left handed kyusu in the Bizen section. And as someone already mentioned, there is a good selection of lefty kyusu on the Tokoname site.

Artistic Nippon Hokujo kyusu with left handed versions available:

http://www.artisticnippon.com/product/t ... imple.html

http://www.artisticnippon.com/product/t ... pot_7.html

yea! and those Hokujo's are schweeet!

sort of a double post..maybe not! took a couple pics of a singular kuysu of the set of 3 i got. The set of 3 is posted in the Ode to Kyusu thread!



I really like these kyusu's very nice balance and design..fine sesame filters. really good feel to them!

Very striking combination of color and form.

debunix wrote:Very striking combination of color and form.

I find myself really liking the style too. I wasnt sure when i saw pics of them online but the price i got 3 of these for there was NO way to pass them up. I dont believe they knew what they had. The description was "3 personal teapots appears to be made of painted or opaque glass."
uh huh...painted glass....

How could they think clay was glass?
They are clay, right???

Victoria wrote:How could they think clay was glass?
They are clay, right???

yup..clay..nice nerikomi tokoname it seems. sweet sesame filters inside
clsest thing to them i found online was this one from zensuke
http://store.zensuke.com/336neri.html

Although it's hard to believe clay and glass can be mistaken for each other, I think there is some resemblance between the nerikomi style and some art-deco glass. I mean in looks or art style, not material.

BTW that is a very nice kyusu!

britt wrote:Although it's hard to believe clay and glass can be mistaken for each other, I think there is some resemblance between the nerikomi style and some art-deco glass. I mean in looks or art style, not material.

BTW that is a very nice kyusu!

Maybe not so hard to believe when you hear that I got them at goodwill's national online auction/shop! ya! deal of the year for me!

Congratulations iannon - very nice find!

Really hard to capture the beauty of these new Crystallized Celadon Cups from JAS-e Tea:

wow..those look really neat..almost looks like flower petals in the pics

Indeed, the highly reflective material looks very tricky to light.

Gorgeous shimmery effects, though.

Went treasure hunting at Goodwill today and found this.

Another nice Goodwill buy! right on!