Saishiki Mug - Small Teapot Brush Nutgrass – a multi-use elixir

Nutgrass – a multi-use elixir

It has the largest wing volume of any moth and is the second largest moth in the world

The designer was inspired by envisioning the scenery of dining everyday at the table

It is said that this papier-mache technique came down from China in around the Muromachi period

with double lids

Saishiki Mug - Small Teapot Brush Nutgrass – a multi-use elixirSmall mug in a saishiki glaze by Tetsuya Kowari from March 2026. This work is finished in his vibrant, painterly, saishiki style, with abstract, geometric markings defining areas of colour, rendered over a black base and intersected by dramatic carved lines. Each vessel is an embodiment of the marriage between fire, clay and glaze, a true emblem of ceramic mastery and tradition. dimensions height: 9cm diameter: 7cm width: 10cm (incl. handle) base: 5cm