Japanese Water Jar – Mizusashi, With Lid

Water Jar handcrafted in Kyoto, Japan — a mizusashi fresh-water jar for the tea ceremony.
Made by Heian Shojudo, a Kyoto house founded on Teramachi street in 1885 and listed by Kyoto Prefecture among the Kyo no Shinise — the houses that have carried a trade past a hundred years.
The Kyoto iron kettle is worth knowing about. It was used in the tea room from Rikyū's day; in the middle of the Edo period a Kyoto foundry turned it into the Kyō-tetsubin, and by the Meiji era inlaid kettles were leaving Japan as art objects — they still sit in museum collections abroad. Then the war came, the metal was requisitioned, and most of Kyoto's kettle makers closed. This house is one of the few that put it back.
Their iron kettles are cast in sand moulds. There is no master pattern and the mould breaks apart in the pouring, so it cannot be used twice — no two kettles are alike. The iron is fired at 800 °C to raise an oxide skin, brushed with urushi, the sap of the lacquer tree, and fired again at 240 °C: a rust-proofing method four hundred years old, and harmless to drink from. The house works copper as well, raising by hand the lanterns that once marked a Kyoto shop front.
• Design: Mizusashi Water Jar
• Handcrafted — slight variations in colour and grain are the natural charm of handmade work; no two pieces are alike
• Options available — choose your design before checkout
• Arrives carefully packed — ready for gifting
Specifications — Material: Handcrafted · Origin: Kyoto, Japan · Maker: Heian Shojudo
Handmade in Kyoto, Japan by Heian Shojudo. Direct from the maker.
【日本直送】京都职人手工制作，每件手作独一无二，精心包装，适合自用或送礼 🎁