lid of teapot of Ms Ma

Ms Ma's second request was a broken lid of her teapot. It's an easy task and the finish gold line of kintsugi fits the appearance of the teapot.

tiny Chinese teapot

I've got to know Kumiko san at Chaxinkyo, a Chinese tea room. She is a great Chinese tea lover

and an enthusiastic Chinese teapot collector. Once I repaired her teapots through kintsugi. Then she gave me this tiny Chinese tea pot in return whose spout had been tipped off.

It's a pity that I didn't take a picture of the original state when she gave it to me. 

The golden part in the picture had been lost which I made up with lacquer clay.

banko-yaki teapot

Banko ware or Banko-yaki (萬古焼) is ceramics made in Yokkaichi (四日市) of Mie prefecture. It is famous for producing good Japanese teapots.

My friend K san had carelessly dropped a lid of a ginka-kyusu (銀化急須) of Banko yaki.  'ginka' means that the color has changed to silver after firing.

The Banko-yaki kyusu (teapot) normally doesn't use any glaze. And when firing it at a very high temperature the surface of ceramics gets metallic touch.

soy sauce pot of Yamada Ryutaro

I bought this soy sauce pot at Wad Omotenashi Cafe in Osaka.
It is made by a potter Yamada Ryutaro (山田隆太郎） from Tajimi (多治見).
 I liked its lovely shape very much.

But at the same time I thought that the thin spout might be easily broken.

And it was true. After a while, just only hitting it lightly on the faucet when washing it, the spout went off.

So I fixed it. The golden ring it wears now looks nice.

lid of Chinese tea cup

This is another exercise I've got from Chaxinkyo. It's a lid of Chinese tea cup　蓋碗　(gai-wan). Broken into three pieces and there was a chip as well. I finished it with white gold powder.

container of Chinese tea

This is a container of Chinese tea leaf. It is one of my tea mates Ms W who asked me to repair it. She had dropped and split it evenly.

The two parts fitted precisely without chip or void.
But it was difficult to draw a finish line inside comparing to drawing a line outside. That's why the inside line is a bit thicker than I had intended. I need more practicing.

Chinese teapot of Chaxinkyo

Chaxinkyo (茶心居) is one of the few Chinese tea houses in Nagoya (名古屋) where I live. The owner Mr Tsubouchi is my mentor for Chinese tea world. One day he kindly handed me this broken teapot for my practice. He had bought this teapot in China and made it send to Japan. But when he opened the package,the teapot was already broken like this.

A part of bamboo had been lost and I had to make it up with kokuso (lacquer clay). For finishing I didn't use gold powder but I colored the lacquer with red, yellow and black color powder to make it resemble the teapot color.

 The result is this. I showed it to Mr Tsubouchi, but he didn't seem much impressed. So I might try again spraying gold powder or applying matte finishing.