New Shigaraki Kyusu up on Hojo's site

[Frisbeehead]

Hojo has put up a bunch of new Tachi Masaki Shigaraki clay teapots on his site. Just to let anyone that's interested know.

http://hojotea.com/item_e/available.htm

[William]

Good to know! Thanks!

[Alex]

HYPE!

[Frisbeehead]

HYPE!

As soon as I saw it, I figured I'd get one as a Christmas gift to myself. He added much more than last time, as well as smaller sizes.

I actually emailed him about 2 hours after he posted them asking if he could reserve a 140ml one I liked for me. I didn't see a response, but he marked the one I picked as "SOLD". Me being me, I thought someone else grabbed it before I could (it's a popular size) and I sent him an email and he responded with "It's not sold, I saw your email and marked it as sold to reserve it for you. I was very busy adding the new Mumyoi teapots."

Needless to say I felt dumb.

[Alex]

Nice! they are such good pots!. I may be getting a 150ml one!

[Frisbeehead]

Nice! they are such good pots!. I may be getting a 150ml one!

The flatter shaped 150ml ones with the handle that kind of extends wider at the end are really nice. I considered one of those, since I don't own any flatter shaped pots like that.

Anyway it's the holidays, so you should get one and justify it as a Christmas gift to yourself

[pizzapotamus]

Thanks for the heads up, I've got one reserved now too(200ml). It was good to know he was marking them as sold right away too as I saw it "sold" on the site before I received his email about it.

[kyarazen]

hmmm....

[Alex]

I got a flat one. 150ml

I'm really digging flat pots these days. I've kind of gone full circle. At first I loved flat.....then round....then tall and now I'm back to flat!

I like the large opening so I can gently pour water away from the sencha. Also the taste seems nicer to me out of a flat pot.

Anyway just got this pot.

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[Frisbeehead]

I got a flat one. 150ml

I'm really digging flat pots these days. I've kind of gone full circle. At first I loved flat.....then round....then tall and now I'm back to flat!

I like the large opening so I can gently pour water away from the sencha. Also the taste seems nicer to me out of a flat pot.

Anyway just got this pot.

788-6 150ml.jpg

Beautiful. Do you own any Shigaraki pots at the moment?

Also, I'm curious if you have received confirmation email from Akira-san yet. I figure he was busy today doing all of these orders, and is waiting until tomorrow to ship everything at once.

[Alex]

I got a flat one. 150ml

I'm really digging flat pots these days. I've kind of gone full circle. At first I loved flat.....then round....then tall and now I'm back to flat!

I like the large opening so I can gently pour water away from the sencha. Also the taste seems nicer to me out of a flat pot.

Anyway just got this pot.

788-6 150ml.jpg

Beautiful. Do you own any Shigaraki pots at the moment?

Also, I'm curious if you have received confirmation email from Akira-san yet. I figure he was busy today doing all of these orders, and is waiting until tomorrow to ship everything at once.

He won't be shipping yet. Give it a day or two. I did own a 300ml but it was too big for me. I bought it as it was when there was years in between batches. I've heard from a couple of vendors that tachi kind of does his own thing when he likes. So you never quite know when the next batch will be up. Been after a 150ml for some time. The previous couple of batches didn't have as nice forms as these.

I like the one you snagged. I was close to getting that one as well

[Frisbeehead]

I got a flat one. 150ml

I'm really digging flat pots these days. I've kind of gone full circle. At first I loved flat.....then round....then tall and now I'm back to flat!

I like the large opening so I can gently pour water away from the sencha. Also the taste seems nicer to me out of a flat pot.

Anyway just got this pot.

788-6 150ml.jpg

Beautiful. Do you own any Shigaraki pots at the moment?

Also, I'm curious if you have received confirmation email from Akira-san yet. I figure he was busy today doing all of these orders, and is waiting until tomorrow to ship everything at once.

He won't be shipping yet. Give it a day or two. I did own a 300ml but it was too big for me. I bought it as it was when there was years in between batches. I've heard from a couple of vendors that tachi kind of does his own thing when he likes. So you never quite know when the next batch will be up. Been after a 150ml for some time. The previous couple of batches didn't have as nice forms as these.

I like the one you snagged. I was close to getting that one as well

I was reading about this on here. It seems as though he puts this out to be the rarest of the clays, and hence is released less often. I also read somewhere that Masaki Tachi was not making any more after some batch a year or so ago. Luckily that turned out to be false!

I have noticed too that the shigaraki teapots seem to look different with every batch. There was a batch of reddish-orange ones as well, correct? I wonder if those were oxidation fired as opposed to these reduction ones.

Yes, for me the smaller the better. I am typically only making tea for myself, so when I use any vessel over 150-175ml I end up taking too much time to drink it and the teapot cools down. Well, I drink tea slowly anyway so the teapot cools down even when I am only drinking like 120ml.

Similarly, I was between the one I chose and the one you chose when I first looked at them.

[Alex]

What tea is going in yours?

[Frisbeehead]

What tea is going in yours?

I'll try it with a few different teas and see what works best. Of course I will try sencha, but then some Taiwanese oolong, yancha, dancong, and maybe some Chinese green tea. I've been also meaning to try some roasted oolongs such as traditional tieguanyin and roasted dong ding, because for some reason I still haven't tried them.

I already have a zini that I like yancha in so I'm not sure what I'm going to do if I like yancha better in the shiggy. I probably won't be as strict with this pot as far as dedicating it goes, so I will probably mainly use it for one tea but every now and then have others in it.

I also have one of Shimizu's Nosaka clay teapots, so I'm interested in comparing the two side by side with the same tea. I use the Nosaka pretty much just for sencha, although every now and then I'll put lighter oolongs in there. I feel like the Nosaka clay dampens the more subtle tones of the lighter oolongs though, especially with gaoshan oolong and baozhong.

You?

[CWarren]

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