I had never used one of these for Japanese tea until this summer when I poured several infusions into it because I was planning on making iced sencha. It's surprising how different the color is compared to clay yunomi that don't have a white lining. I think one reason I never used it for Japanese tea before is that the Japanese yunomi are available in much larger sizes than most Chinese cups.Chip wrote:Whenever drinking Japanese greens from a guinomi (sake cup ... small), and an entire steep does not fit into the cup, I use this pitcher picked up for a buck or two (I actually got a few of them). Oddly, I only use this "fair cup" for Japanese greens. Intuitively?
It is great also for smelling the concentrated aroma steaming from the narrow opening. Of course can see the tea as well. And can swirl it around to mix up the bits of leaf.
It is clunky, cheap, low quality, and used thousands of times.
Yutaka Midori, Yame Fukamushi from Den's.
Seriously, when I first read this topic, I thought of you!Herb_Master wrote:I love fair cups.
Just returned from 3 weeks in Malaysia, before I went I had 5 fair cups, I now own 15.
I love fair cups.
And I am still waiting for Petr Novak to make me a larger double wall footed pitcher with a nacre interior and a lid that I can use over a tealight when at the bottom of the garden far from my brewing station -
My intention, but after 3 weeks holiday and some jet lag I have returned with so many things that need photograsphing.Zensuji wrote:Get some pics up HM
but one camera had the wrong date so I need to work out the real dates.I wish I could be there to help unpack and photograph the new teaware.Herb_Master wrote: My intention, but after 3 weeks holiday and some jet lag I have returned with so many things that need photographing.
work again on Saturday, start tidying Sunday and photographing on Tuesday
Anticipating the new pic's. 
Perhaps it will be fired with the pot and cups set I asked him to make.Herb_Master wrote: And I am still waiting for Petr Novak to make me a larger double wall footed pitcher with a nacre interior and a lid that I can use over a tealight when at the bottom of the garden far from my brewing station -
NoZensuji wrote:Is that glass wares?
