A pour-over set in three pieces: a tall, waisted server with a slender spout; a cone dripper that sits on it by a wide flange; and a lid for the dripper, its knob shaped like a roasted coffee bean and scored with a cross, beside a small steam hole.
The kiln turned the clay a deep iron-brown with a dark metallic sheen, fading to bare red-brown at the foot. Ash melted to amber-gold along the spout and across the handle, whose surface is pressed with rows of fingertip dimples for grip. Inside the cone, ribs radiate down toward a single drain hole, guiding the coffee as it falls.
Unglazed Bizen stoneware, wood-fired in one continuous firing near Bizen, Okayama (GPS 34.7456°N, 134.1894°E). Its colour and markings are kiln transformation (yōhen) — the record of earth and flame in a single moment, not a pattern anyone chose. One of a kind, shaped by human hands, and impossible to reproduce. Traceable to the kiln that made it.
Dimensions (assembled)
Height: 194 mm (with dripper and lid)
Width: 170 mm (handle to spout)
Server mouth: 75 mm
Server capacity: 500 ml
Weight: 880 g (all three pieces)
Fragile by nature and packed for the journey. Ships worldwide from Japan.
