This tea pot has been beautifully made and is perfect for making gyokuro. The clay kyusu was well packaged and arrived very quickly. Many thanks!

Not sure how to write a decent review but I really love this firefly-green kukicha! :) Sweet and mild, just what I like. There might be a bit more caffeine in it than I expected but I can always adjust the timing of sipping tea. Sending my gratitude to you and the farmers, this tea will certainly cheer me up on rainy days. xx

Lovely depth to this matcha, very smooth with an exceptional combination of flavour. My favourite matcha by far .

A wonderfully subtle flavour, gentle, and thoroughly enjoyable.

A smooth and calming tea of high quality. Have tried other brands when Tencha is out of stock but nothing compares with the flavour of this one. Highly recommended.

Such a well balanced sencha. Rich and sweet with plenty of depth. Buy this one if youre looking for an examaple of quality sencha.

I bought an authentic Iroiro teapot and some beautiful green tea to go with it and couldn't be happier. A great experience, great service and I will certainly be returning. Thank you!

My second purchase 10/10

I liked it

I looove this matcha. It works great for both usucha and matcha lattes. For lattes, it’s perfect—unlike higher-grade Toyomukashi or Tempaku, which are much more subtle and sweet, this one retains its grassiness and slight bitterness, resulting in an outstanding and pronounced matcha flavour.

This is just as finely designed and useful as the "fire-varnished" Umehara/Takamitsu II kyusu we bought a few days earlier. Equally well-balanced, sculptural and tactile but subtly different - slightly more solid and massy.

Fuller-bodied, with matt-blacks instead of lightly variegated fire-browns, an undecorated, gently polished lid playing off the strings of tiny wedge indents circling the body, much like the ancient 'cord' decoration which inspired some C20 'mingei' potters.

A neat and tactile mid-sized kyusu, pleasant to handle and well-balanced. Not only a tea-pot but a fascinating mini-sculpture, subtly 'kawaii' in shape, texture and quietly variegated colours, with a prehistoric feel.

Partly from its 'yakishime' firing, without added glaze - smoke and flames naturally 'washing and dyeing' the raw clay with the mobile, blasting heat of a traditional wood-fired, single-chamber ('anagama') kiln. Here understated, without accumulated ash, simply flame-scorched as it might have been within the restricted space of an ancient, pre-kiln pit-firing.

Instead of ash the surface of the fine local clay has neat lines of simple wedge indentations circling lid and body like tattoos. A sophisticated take on ancient decoration which brings the pot's surface quietly to life.through eye and touch. Nicely done.

This tea... Amazing! No bitterness - indeed an almost-sweet chocolatey flavour, but dry like wine. Eminently drinkable, this one is already a favourite. Thoroughly impressed and will be ordering more.

Great tea. 👍