Would you like to create your own teapots set for your ceremony?

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You will be guided step by step to make your own teapot with Japanese traditional wooden mould.

You hold your own teacups filled with warm tea from your handmade teapot.

 

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About Kigato Banko Yaki technique

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This craft, using a special puzzled wooden mould to make tea pots, was invented 190 years ago by a Japanese craftsman Yusetsu Mori (1808-1882). Yusetsu applied the puzzled wood mould technique to make teapots for green tea ceremonies - the technique was once used to make Japanese paper bamboo lamps. In Kigata Banko Yaki, a piece of high quality thinly pressed clay is wrapped around the wooden form, with a layer of Japanese special Kakishibu paper (柿渋紙, made from persimmon juice).

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Haruka: 'As the 9th generation successor of the Kigata Banko Yaki, I strive to protect and perpetuate this special technique, and to show and publicise it to the world. In addition to the typical patterns of tea pots in Japanese style, I add creative elements. In doing so, I bring an age-old tradition to today. 

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2 days workshop 

What you get is: To create a teapot and two cups. And Japanese lunch.

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• Japanese handmade Vegetarian lunch will be served during workshop. The recipe of this lunch is created based on idea of Yakuzen and macrobiotic.

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• To paint and draw your design to decorate on your own teapot and cups.

• Experience Japanese traditional Green tea ceremony, and get instruction how to make Gyokuro green tea with small Gyokuro teapot.

• Taste Japanese wagashi. And taste different kind of tea from Japan and China. 

• Tea, coffee and are included.

• Material , firing and glazing are included.

• After 2-3 weeks, teapot can be picked up at studio. If you want it to be sent to your address, the sending cost will be charged extra.

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<Workshop Schedule>

Day 1

10:15 Welcome

10:30 Start workshop

12:45-13:15 Lunch pause

13:15-16:00 Workshop

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Day 2

10:15 Welcome

10:30 Start workshop

10:30-11:45 Painting on the teapot and cups

12:00-13:00 Tea ceremony

13:00-13:30 Giving instruction how to make Gyokuro green tea.

13:30-14:30 Light Lunch for Onigiri (rice ball) or noodle.

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2nd date

by appointment

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<To bring>

•Theedoek (to dry your hand etc.) •Apron (if you have) •Clay tools-spatula (if you have) •Scissors

We use porcelain clay to make teapots and cups.

If you would like to create more than two cups, it costs 5 euro per cup to be glazed and fired. It takes about 3-4 weeks to be finished the firing. When it finished, I will contact you and we can make new appoint

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Two days Kigata Banko Ceramic Workshop

Price 285 euro (inclusive 21% VAT) for 2 days.

*If you are more than four people, please chose preferred date and contact me by email.

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