Masterwork Smoked Bamboo Omotesenke Formal Kazuho Fine-Tine Matcha Tea Whisk (Chasen) — Takayama Chasen by Kubo Sabun

Takayama 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 Kubo Sabun, a master tea-whisk maker (chasen-shi) of the long-established Chikumeido workshop, working in the centuries-old Takayama tradition. Each whisk is shaped from a single length of bamboo through a long sequence of hand steps — splitting the bamboo into fine tines, thinning and curving each tine, and binding them with thread — work that cannot be reproduced by machine.

It is finished to the form favored by the Omotesenke school of tea. A formal kazuho whisk whose many fine tines raise a smooth, fine foam for thin tea (usucha). Made from smoked bamboo (susutake) — bamboo aged over years in farmhouse rafters, prized for its deep amber tone. A masterwork-grade whisk made from prized smoked bamboo (susutake).

Care: rinse the whisk in warm water before and after use, whisk briefly in clean water to relax the tines, then stand it on a whisk holder (kusenaoshi) to dry and keep its shape. Do not use detergent or a dishwasher, and avoid prolonged soaking.

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