Digital Collections

- Tray
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Trays -- Japan [lcsh];
- This square tray with notched corners has multiple functions. It may hold the caddy for thick tea (chaire) in certain temae (tea procedures) or it may be used to serve dry sweets (higaohi) during thin tea. The textured vermillian lacquer surface...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Tray for the Daien No Shin or Daien No So tea procedure
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Trays -- Japan [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- Tray for Daien No Shin or Daien No So tea procedure in formal black lacquer
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Black incense container for furo season
- Incense burners and containers [lcsh]; Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]
- Black lacquer incense container (kogo) with Wisteria crest in gold lacquer. Note how the crest also references the image of a butterfly.
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Reddish lacquer incense container for furo season
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Incense burners and containers [lcsh]
- This reddish lacquer (tamenuri) incense container for the furo has a stylized bird motif.
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Lid rest in three-lobed leaf shape
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Raku pottery [lcsh]
- Lid rest, in the three-lobed leaf shape (mitsuba futaoki) that is part of the Rikyu Seven futaoki set and crafted in a crackled white raku glaze known as koro kusuri (incense burner glaze).
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Lid rest in sazae seashell shape
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- Lid rest, in the shape of a sazae seashell, that is part of the Rikyu Seven futaoki set.
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Lid rest in crab shape
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Raku pottery [lcsh]
- Lid rest, in the shape of a small river crab (kani futaoki), that is part of the Rikyu Seven futaoki set and made in red raku glaze.
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Lid rest in trivet shape
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- Lid rest, in the shape of a trivet for a kettle, that is part of the Rikyu Seven futaokii set, made in green and white raku glaze that resembles Oribe ware. This shape of futaoki is used only at times when a trivet is not present in the sunken...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Tray for serving dry sweets in black and gold
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Trays -- Japan [lcsh];
- The geometric shape of this tray is a stylized image of a snow flake.
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Incense case for ro season
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Incense burners and containers [lcsh]
- Incense case (kogo) in the style of Annam ware. Annam is the archaic Japanese name for Vietnam. Vietnamese blue and white ceramic ware was particularly prized in the tearoom from the late 16th century onward due to the soft and udnefined quality of...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Porcelain dishes
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh];
- Set of porcelain dishes for food. Could be used when serving an abbreviated Kaiseki meal, known as tenshin. In tenshin all foods, except for the main dish in broth, are served on a single tray. If one of the foods had a sauce, then it would be put...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection