kyusu glaze but not porcelin in SF tea garden?

[Stormlight]

I was in GoldenGate Park today at the Japanese Tea Garden. I saw a kyusu pot and matching cups that had a smooth slick type of glaze on the inside as well as the outside. This was a clay pot with some type of glaze. Very smooth on the inside.

Is this type of glaze good enough to be able to brew many different teas in? Or do you still need a porcelain pot for that.

As a side question for a clay no glaze kyusu pot anyone have a list of teas that can be put in with out tainting a future brew?

For example all types of sencha in it or only like senchas?

thanks

[Chip]

Photos would help us to help you ... plus we like to see photos of teaware especially in a Japanese garden. Generally, a glazed kyusu can be used for various teas without any residual issues, but there could be some exceptions.

Unglazed ... I have had experience with an unglazed kyusu used constantly for a few years that acquired an odd sweet taste and aroma of many teas combined ... is was annoying to me as it distracted from the true taste of the tea as they all had this common element.

I don't do that anymore, but you can brew all your sencha in the same pot. Avoid any roasted or grain teas such as houjicha and genmaicha use in the same pot as fine sencha, eventually there will be a residual taste and aroma.

[Stormlight]

http://db.tt/wli279rA

Here it is sorry for that bad pic.

They confirmed it was clay but I couldnt get an answer to say if it was a glaze over it or just a way they polished the clay to make it really smooth.

[hopeofdawn]

That definitely looks glazed to me, though I couldn't tell you whether it's stoneware or porcelain clay underneath ...

[andrzej bero]

looking at a lid's rim I dare say it's a stoneware

[MIKE_B]

looking at a lid's rim I dare say it's a stoneware

I'd also guess a white stoneware.

[Stentor]

Looks like ash glazed stoneware to me(?).
There shouldn't be any problems with brewing all kinds of of tea in this! Don't worry about it!