FLAT-PRICE USED TEA UTENSILS — 均一価格の中古茶道具ポータル
A flat-price marketplace for pre-loved Japanese tea utensils, easy to enjoy even as a beginner.
No price-guessing — just pick the piece you like.
Cerendipity = Ceramic × Serendipity — the happy accident of meeting a piece you love.
The tea-utensil arm of Yusando.
Bring that encounter into daily life, and the days grow richer.
Choosing what you like
is reason enough.— YUSANDO ANTIQUE GALLERY
ABOUT THIS SITE
The hardest part of buying a tea utensil is usually the price. Two bowls that look alike can be three thousand yen or three hundred thousand. Without a trained eye it feels like a trap — so most people never reach out at all.
Yusando Antique Gallery is a flat-price portal for pre-loved tea utensils. With the price-comparing removed, what remains is the only measure that matters: whether a piece delights you. This glaze, this weight in the hand — that is reason enough.
Knowing the names and the histories makes it richer still, so for every utensil we set out the reading, the story, the parts and the handling in plain language. The difficult parts can wait.
NEW ARRIVALS
Pieces newly arrived at the Yusando gallery. Ask us about anything that catches your eye — online ordering will follow once it is ready.
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THE UTENSILS
The indispensable utensils of the tea procedure. Each detail page covers history, parts, use, and secondhand buying points.
The eight principal utensils of sencha. It all begins with a single kyūsu; detail pages will follow.
茶碗 — Tea Bowl
The bowl in which tea is whisked and drunk — the utensil that most reveals the host’s taste, chosen anew with every season.
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02 LV.1A bowl today茶筅 — Tea Whisk
A whisk carved from a single piece of bamboo. Takayama in Nara has made them for five hundred years.
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03 LV.1A bowl today茶杓 — Tea Scoop
A slender bamboo scoop for matcha. Small as it is, a named chashaku can carry the theme of an entire gathering.
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04 LV.1A bowl today棗 — Tea Caddy
A lacquered caddy for thin-tea matcha, named for its jujube-fruit silhouette.
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05 LV.2Host a gathering茶釜 — Iron Kettle
The iron kettle whose simmering voice — matsukaze, “wind in the pines” — is the sound of the tea room.
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06 LV.2Host a gathering柄杓 — Water Ladle
A bamboo ladle for hot and cold water. Its single, silent pour is one of the beauties of the procedure.
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07 LV.2Host a gathering帛紗 — Silk Cloth
The silk cloth that purifies the utensils. Folding it — fukusa-sabaki — settles the mind as much as it cleans.
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08 LV.2Host a gathering水指 — Water Jar
The jar of fresh water that anchors the arrangement of the tea-making place.
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急須 — Side-handle Teapot
A small clay pot for steeping and pouring. Every sencha set begins with this one piece.
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宝瓶 — Handleless Pot
A flat pot with no handle, held in the palm. For gyokuro and fine sencha, brewed slowly in cooler water.
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湯冷まし — Water Cooler
A lipped bowl into which boiled water is poured to cool to the right temperature — the key to good sencha.
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煎茶碗 — Sencha Cup
A cup small enough to sit in the palm. Its white interior shows the colour of the tea. Used in sets of five or six.
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茶托 — Saucer
The saucer on which the cup is offered. Tin, wood, silver or bamboo — each material changes the mood.
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茶心壺 — Tea Caddy
A tin caddy for the leaf. At a sencha gathering, the leaves are taken from here.
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茶合・茶則 — Leaf Scoop
Measures the leaf and carries it to the pot. Usually a split length of bamboo; some bear poetic names.
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涼炉・ボーフラ — Brazier & Kettle
A small clay brazier and the earthenware kettle that sits on it — the literati tabletop in miniature.
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READING
GUIDE
Raku, Hagi and Karatsu; tenmoku and ido. The lineages, kilns and shapes — sorted for choosing.
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GUIDE
Ashiya, Tenmyō and Kyoto, and every shape from shinnari to unryū.
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GUIDE
Katatsuki, nasu, bunrin — the thick-tea caddy read through its shapes and its pouch.
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GUIDE
Sizes, lacquer finishes, and the wider family of thin-tea containers.
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GUIDE
Tine counts, bamboo colors, schools. How to choose your chasen, explained for beginners.
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HISTORY
How one cup of medicine from China became, over a thousand years, a Way. A timeline in seven eras.
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HISTORY
Chinese treasures, mitate, and wares made in Japan — five centuries traced through six utensils.
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SEASON
Seasonal flowers, tea-scoop names, bowls and caddy motifs — the whole tea year, term by term.
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CARE
Warm water only, no detergent. Dry fully before boxing; soak new ceramics overnight before first use.
Rinse in hot water and air-dry tines-up. A shaping stand keeps its curve.
Never wash with water — a soft dry cloth only. Store in its paulownia box, away from sun.
Empty and dry with residual heat. The mineral scale protects it — never scrub, never soap.
WHOLESALE & TRADE
For tea schools, ryokan and restaurants, events and gifts, and buyers abroad: tell us the use, the budget and how many pieces, and we will put together a selection from the gallery.
A practice set, several pieces of one kind, or a seasonal grouping — tell us the use and we will choose from what the gallery holds.
10 pieces or more, 10% off; 25 or more, 20% off. Any mix of categories, counted across one selection.
In advance, by bank transfer. Pieces are shipped once the transfer has cleared; transfer fees are the buyer’s.
We will talk through packing and paperwork. Terms vary by country and by object, so please ask before you decide.
Please write “wholesale” in your message so it reaches the right desk.
