Vintage Japanese Natsume Tea Ceremony Caddy Natural Sugi Wood 4” Laquer birthday gifts and otherwise given

birthday gifts and otherwise given to impart luck

This listing is for the pair of matching senchawan

a respected 20th-century publisher founded in the late 1920s and known for exacting hand-printed editions faithfully recreating historic blocks

Having been well loved for nearly a century and a half

Inside diameter = 13

Vintage Japanese Natsume Tea Ceremony Caddy Natural Sugi Wood 4” Laquer birthday gifts and otherwise givenThis is a vintage Japanese natsume or tea caddy used in the chanoyu tea ceremony. It holds the powdered green tea called matcha. A quality natsume such as this is made of turn wood, typically hinoki or Japanese cypress. the Natsume itself is signed on the botom. The kiri wood box is included. Hight = 2. 5 Width = 3 Depth = 2. 5 Weight = 4. 65oz