Chashaku Tea Scoop for Tea Ceremony Red Laquered Back w/ Box

This is a used Chashaku previously owned by a frequent tea practitioner. Includes signed box.

The Chashaku is the simple bamboo tea scoop used to transfer powdered green tea from the caddie to the tea bowl during tea ceremony. As it’s function is one of the most pivotal points in the ritual, it occupies a special roll as a work of art within itself.

This one has an exposed bamboo scoop with a red lacquered back with hand painted "shumari" (kick balls) in gold maki-e.

Specialized craftsmen and tea masters themselves carve these out of specially selected bamboo. They then carve a tube from bamboo to store it in and usually a kiri wood box to store the tube in. These tubes, boxes or both are then signed by the craftsmen. When a Chashaku is of fine workmanship then it is signed by the craftsmen on the presentation box or storage tube.

Heigth = 7“

Width = 3/8“

Depth = 1/8“

Weight = 1.14oz