Buy Kaikado Tea Caddy
Today kaikado is renowned for their timeless design and tradit.
Buy kaikado tea caddy. The kyoto based maker innovated the traditional craft during the early meiji period at a time when earthenware jars were still in common use for storing tea leaves. Display your tea in a caddy that suits your style. Dear visitors to kaikado shop and or the pop up store you will receive our original tea scoop with your name hand engraved into it as a present when purchasing a tea caddy. Cup of tea ltd love our range of quality tea caddies.
Kaikado is the oldest producer of handmade tin tea caddies since 1875. Kaikado and postcard teas have collaborated for several years and recently launched postcard teas caddies in the uk and japan. Established in 1875 in kyoto kaikado is a small family run company that has been producing chazutsu tea caddies by hand since their inception. For more than 130 years kaikado has been producing hand made japanese tea caddies designed to last for generations.
Beautiful tea caddies and tea storage tins to buy online. If you usually store your tea in bags aka teabags maybe it s time to upgrade to a caddy. Last week we visited kaikado s shop in kyoto where takahiro yagi the 6th. The caddies are available in natural brass or copper and are intentionally left unlacquered.
The canister grows value and appreciation as this sheen of oxidation continues to develop. Explore our range here and indulge yourself in a special tea treat. For the past two years the sixth generation of kaikado takahiro yagi has visited our central london store to meet customers engrave their tea scoops and demonstrate how kaikado s tea caddies are meticulously hand made. A one hundred year old tea caddy with opaque patina holds the soul and memories of a family.
Existing from the very time where wars were started over tea leaves to now where tea can be acquired through a trip to the supermarket. It is an unobtrusive design a metal cylinder crafted out of copper tin or brass. The kaikado tea caddy develops a unique patina over time specific to the component brass tin or copper materials. The tea ceremony which is known to have originated from kyoto was an essential part of everyday life.
We are sure you will too. In 1875 the company made the first commercially available tin caddy from a small workshop in kyoto. The kaikado tea caddy was first crafted by kiyosuke kaikado in the edo era when it was commonplace to store tea in jars made from china and earthenware. Elegantly functional each cylindrical caddy is produced in a process that involves anywhere between 130 to 140 steps.
In many ways it may at first glance seem like an. Kaikado first designed the caddy as a way. Variety of sizes capacities and designs.