Sai-akaaoe Katakuchi - 100ml

This elegant Kiyomizu-yaki porcelain yuzamashi (湯冷まし - water cooler) is hand-painted in a style called sai-akaaoe (彩赤青絵), a combination of red and green overglaze painting. This piece features designs of bamboo, flowers, and birds.

Yuzamashi are used to cool down boiling water to a temperature more suitable for brewing green tea. When poured into a yuzamashi, boiling water cools to roughly 90°C, which then will cool to roughly 80°C when poured into a cold teapot. To cool water further, you can either let it sit in the yuzamashi for longer, or pour it into cups and then into the teapot.

This yuzamashi was made by Kuramoto Masao (倉元 真佐夫) of Kōhō Kiln (光抱窯)

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