Celebration Rikyū-Style Smoked Bamboo Matcha Tea Whisk (Chasen) — Takayama ChasenTakayama in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, has been the home of the Japanese tea whisk (chasen) for roughly five centuries, and to this day Takayama makes the overwhelming majority of all chasen used in Japan. The craft has been handed down from master to apprentice since the Muromachi era. This chasen is hand carved by the artisans of Chikumeido, a long established Takayama tea whisk workshop. Each whisk is shaped from a single length of bamboo through a

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