Show Off Your Pots and Cups, Part III

[betta]

My latest acquisition without breaking my vow, cuz one of my previous was well sold ^-^
Any explanation from the chinese words written down the pot there is highly appreciated

[hirtue]

Ordered those today(all from Artistic Nippon):


I fell in love with this cup the very moment I saw it.

And 2 pieces from the amazing Hokujo:

(planning to use this one for senchas)



Took me a long time to finally decide to buy those. Since I turned 18 2 months ago(possibly the youngest teafreak here, hehe) I had to go through all this account and paypal stuff, but well - here it goes! I spent quite a lot of my savings, but what the hell, tea is my passion, I just couldn't help it. Can't wait to get my hands on this stuff...

[brandon]

Woo hoo, another Hokujo fan!
I just ordered two of these.

[joelbct]

Nice picks, hirtue and brandon!

I think drinking sencha out of nice Japanese pots and cups does indeed add to the experience.

And I like to think that our individual teaware items here represent a group collection, a sort of virtual teaware museum.

[chamekke]

Any explanation from the chinese words written down the pot there is highly appreciated

I can make out two of the characters based on the little Japanese I can read.

In the rightmost column, the first character is "one" and the fourth is "heart" or "mind".

Not much, but it's a start

P.S. Edited to change "four" to "two". Apparently I can't count today

[MarshalN]

My latest acquisition without breaking my vow, cuz one of my previous was well sold ^-^
Any explanation from the chinese words written down the pot there is highly appreciated

The text is read from top to bottom, right to left.

The first seven characters is one line -- yi pian bing xin zai yu hu, very roughly translated as "An icy heart in a jade pot", sorry, this is very bad, I know.

The last two words on the left is, technically anyway, the name of the maker, but this is almost never the case and should just be left at that.

[betta]

Thank you MarshalN and Chamekke. Nice to know the meaning

[olivierco]

Waiting for me at the post office

[Salsero]

That's a relief! At first I thought it was a coffin!

[chamekke]

That's a handsome chabako set! Congratulations, Olivier. I'm glad you finally got a box. (It looks a lot like the one I own, in fact!)

[augie]

That's a relief! At first I thought it was a coffin!

I worried it was cigars!

Please send us some pictures when you get it unpacked and into use!!!

[olivierco]

I haven't any camera (I am always postponing buying one, because of other priorities (books and teaware mostly), but I will borrow one during my summer vacations and then take time to post some pictures

[olivierco]

Bought mainly for the shifuku

[chamekke]

I'd have bought it for the shifuku alone, too. Very handsome.

When you get a camera, Olivier, would you consider taking photos of all your shifuku?

[olivierco]

I'd have bought it for the shifuku alone, too. Very handsome.

When you get a camera, Olivier, would you consider taking photos of all your shifuku?

Sure.
I will also take a picture of the kobukusa I have just received.