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Shiha Tea & Comfort is Japanese Teapot shop in Tokyo, Japan. We would like to share 100 lovely & traditional Japanese Handmade Teapots. Those are handmade & made in Japan, mainly Tokoname-yaki, Kyo-yaki(Kyoyaki) and Banko-yaki.

Japan produces excellent teapots along with the deep tea culture and long ceramic history. Some of the teapots in this page are for sale. Please check our online shop.

我們是一家在東京的日本茶壺店。给大家分享一下日本精美茶壶。日本的悠久陶瓷历史和深远茶文化为基础,现代作家们制作精美茶壶。我们网店也介绍各种茶壶。欢迎来看看。

Current Situation and Background of Japanese Traditional Handmade Teapots

Some of the teapots shown in the video and on this page may no longer be produced. Like other traditional Japanese crafts, the Tokoname-yaki teapot industry is suffering from a lack of successors.

The potters (teapot artists) who make handmade teapots introduced in our store are very skilled craftsmen who have been making teapots for over 40 or 50 years, and their techniques are now at their peak.

Most of them are in their 70s. For about half a century, they have thoroughly thought through the tea culture, people’s life and values of each era, preserving tradition incorporating new beauty, changing some things, leaving some things unchanged, and ”protect” and “challenge” have been continued.

All of the teapot artists you can see on our website(blogs) have make the same effort to create wonderful teapots that are both functional and beautiful.

SHIHA TEAPOT SHOP has been introducing many photos and contents for over 10 years in order to convey the charm of these artists and their works to the world.

Beautiful Japanese Traditional Teapots (YouTube Version)



100 TEAPOTS, 100 BEAUTIES 百壺百美

Graceful red clay teapot with Maple. Artist: Housei Yamada & His mother (carving) (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Kyoto porcelain teapot , Blue & White hand painting bamboo, thin body. Elegant. Artist: Kato Seisho (father and son) Father makes body and son paints.

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Setsudo(potter) & Kodo(caver) , beautiful white cranes flying on river in the dark. Graceful motion of the cranes. Crane make us think myth of Japan. (Tokoname)

Motozo Kameoka, flat red clay teapot with cloth-pattern on surface. Taste of Motozo’s handmade. (Tokoname)

Sabi-beauty. Artist: Jinpachi Ogawa

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Shoryu Blue Dew Teapot. Outside is coated with blue, inside is unglazed. It is beautiful like a dew in nature.

Lacy red clay double wall teapot – Shunen the second invented the unique style. Artist: Shunen Mano (Shunen the second) (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Fine red clay and rough mountain clay mix together. Sophisticated shape and very thin. Yokei Mizuno. (Tokoname)

Warm, stylish, sensation of clay.. It is so natural. “Sensation of underground soil” and “what teapot express” has to be the same, Hokujo says. 

Setsudo(teapot) & Kodo(Carving) , Tasteful, harmony of calligraphy, picture. Carving letters on spherical is a technique. (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Full relief carving of Sakura. Housei (potter) and his mother (carver)’s work. Elegant and gorgeous. (Tokoname)

Seiho red clay teapot. Textue of surface is natual – water clay is applied for the texture. Stylish.(Tokoname)

Kodo Yoshikawa carving on red clay Houhin, calligraphic carving, art, texture and tea..so much to enjoy while having tea. (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Houhin Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Bizen small Houhin teapot. Primitive, nature, pretty shape. Wabisabi beauty.

Beautiful Japanese Houhin Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Jinshu (Ito Seiji) white teapot with metal handle. Line art was made of real seaweed. They were bound on the body of teapot and fired in kiln. (Tokoname)

Jinshu (Ito Seiji) Flat Teapot with oyster shell powder. It is like gold on white body. Design of inside (mesh filter) is also stylish.

Shoryu’s stamped flower and circle teapot, beautiful black! From 30-40 years ago. (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Motozo’s Snowy red clay – smoked black teapot. He also wove the handle. His works are timeless. (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Bizen Teapot. Bizen’s clays contain lots of various organic material. It shows so many color after firing Flame and Clay made the color.

Ogawa Jinpachi, Iron Glaze, Frog lid, harmonious. He loves tea as well.

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Suzu ware (Suzuyaki) Artist, SHINOHARA TAKASHI wood fired black teapot. His black is very soft, and with gray ash, it is so sacred. Quiet beauty.

Light orange lines on white clay is so artistic. The lines were made from rice straw in kiln. Jin’s Houhin teapot.

Kodo & Ssetsudo, Various carving technique of Kodo’s in the picture. (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Bizen pumpkin shape, fruits lid knob, white, yellow, brown color on the body which were made in kiln. Bizen ware has one of 6 old kiln in Japan – Hard, Unglazed, Colorful clay.

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Elegant form, nuance color and gradation with beautiful ash on the body. Rich texture. Harmonious and elegant teapot. Wood-fired. Made by Shiraiwa Taisuke.

Shoryu Teapot. Oil drop pattern with delicate shine, gold lid knob,5 times of firing. 20 years ago, he saw a teapot in his room beautifully reflecting sunlight coming from net window screen. He has been longing to create such a teapot, and this is it! (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Zojoji Temple in Snow, old time of Japan. Building of temple in red and red clay in harmony. Hand carved by Kodo Yoshikawa.(Tokoname)

Hakudo’s detailed carving from 40 years ago. (Tokoname)

 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Hakusan’s teapot is along with nature. Feeling very light, soft like wind.(Tokoname)

Association of Traditional Craftsmen of Production Areas

Housei’s teapot has elegant shape and graceful carving. Very noble.(Tokoname)

Houhin made by Hiromi Yamamoto, who is worshiped by many teapot artists.

Beautiful Japanese Houhin Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Old Kutani teapot. Porcelain. Kutani is one of porcelain production areas of Japan.

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Shunen, Red fine clay fine carving, Pine-Bamboo-Pulm tree, Japanese lucky plants. (Tokoname)

 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Kodo Yoshikawa, Setsudo Yoshikawa’s work. Sword that the crow holding is famous “Kogarasumaru”  (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Shunen, Green clay lacy, double wall, red clay is shown in the plum shape window . He creates different style of teapot from his father. (Tokoname)

Junzou who research clay from many of different places of Japan , small teapot with rough texture clay, different impression under light and without light. Rustic beauty. (Tokoname)

 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort

Red clay teapot represent Tokoname, makes green tea taste silky. Japanese tea culture is deeply connected to pottery art. (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Shiha Tea & Comfort original red clay teapot, a style of old time teapot. Simple and pretty, delicate clay. (Tokoname)

Kodo carved Fujin & Raijin on a red clay teapot. Setsudo made the teapot, Yoshikawa brother’s work. (Tokoname)

Banko teapot. Typical Banko clay is purple clay. Surface of the body and lid is cut artistically, contrast of texture is attractive.

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Yoshiki who makes various style of tea ware, red clay smoked black Shiboridashi, good to brew Gyokuro. (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Shoryu Teapot. 20 years ago, he saw a teapot in his room beautifully reflecting sunlight coming from net window screen- he has been longing to create such a teapot, and this is it! (Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Soukou who was called teapot master, Showa era, very light(thin) and sophisticated shape.(Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Toju(Sugie Hirotaka), Houhin, potter with over 70 year’s work, Created unique style of teapots making the most of his clay. This looks wood or iron.(Tokoname) 陶寿(杉江弘隆)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Simple, warm, nature – Hakusan’s work. Shiboridashi with real seaweed pattern.(Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Houhin Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Setsudo, red clay teapot, famous for the silky texture. Water flow of his works are perfect.(Tokoname)

Left: Motozo teapot, red clay smoked black. Uniqueness, Warmness are his style
Right: Red clay Pearl shape teapot from 30-40 years ago.(Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Bizen Houhin, received lots of ash in kiln, imagine fire, nature. deep – never get bored watching.

Beautiful Japanese Houhin Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Banko teapot from some decade ago. Banko is famous for the purple clay. Simple and traditional.

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Bizen salt glazed teapot. Bizen is unglazed pottery, Fujiwara makes special works from generation to generation.

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Blue & white porcelain from Kyoto. for brewing tea or put in brewed tea.

 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Kyoto porcelain teapot. Koto Seisho’s tea ware is graceful.

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Wood fired yellow ash, Kiko Ando, Stylish and cool.

Wood fired yellow ash, Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Kodo Yoshikawa, Crows – order made at Shiha Tea & Comfort(Tokoname)

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan

Houhin of Kyoto Porcelain. Houhin is to brew high grade green tea. Please see what is Houhin.

Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Rice straw fire line, Yokei(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Jin, Shiboridashi, simple and natural, real seaweed pattern(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Green clay, smoked black lid and lower body, seaweed pattern. Body shape is graceful.(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Seiho, black teapot with metal handle with a lid holder.(Tokoname)
 Beautiful Japanese Houhin Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Yellow clay seaweed lines, Houhin(Tokoname)
Ito Seiji , Tokoname Japanese Teapot Kyusu, Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Ito Seiji, Metal handle, small elegant teapot with seaweed pattern(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Tokoname Houhin from some decades ago(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Silver kettle with carps. to boil water.
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Red clay, hundred poem, Showa era, delicate carving with this degree is not seen nowadays. (Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Kodo & Ssetsudo, Hand carving Red clay(Tokoname)
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Green clay seaweed fire line Tokoname teapot(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Green clay teapot of Hakusan, harmonious in color and shape. (Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Touju – Only he can create the texture – wood like(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Suzu ware black teapot, follow the style of suzu ware of 400’s ago, small (narrow)bottom, Takashi Shinohara
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Banko glazed teapot, Beauty of the Crack, the Red and the shine
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Yokei, sophisticated, elegance, natural is his style. mixture of 2 different clay. (Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Banko houhin, beautiful honeycomb and lines.
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Kyoto, Blue & White porcelain houhin. Blank space in the picture makes space in your mind.
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Touju, Houhin(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Sou Yamada, “Sou Blue”, wood firing(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Jinpachi Ogawa, elegant style
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Jinpachi Ogawa, elegant blue teapot
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Mizuno Yokei, seaweed pattern, teapot, his teapot is “nature and elegance”(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Kodo & Setsudo, poems of 36 great great poet from Heian an period of Japan(Tokoname)
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Mizuno Yokei, Seaweed teapot, he goes and pick seaweed to ocean in spring. Only soft and thin spring seaweed can make delicate lines.(Tokoname)
Tokoname, Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Keiichi Watanabe, Shine and color came from Shell during firing in kiln. Shape, texture, color are goes with relaxed teatime.(Tokoname)
Tokoname, Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Seiho, texture of lid and body are different, sakura watching at night – the artist expressed it. (Tokoname)
Tokoname, Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Plum flower relief carving, Shunen the second. Clay color and design perfectly match.(Tokoname)
Tokoname, Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Shunen the second. Double wall maples. Body color and maple matches. (Tokoname)
Kyoto, Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Kyoto porcelain light green teapot
Banko, Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Banko teapot, lid knob rotates, ring on handle – typical for Kata Banko teapot.
 Beautiful Japanese Houhin Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Porcelain Houhin from Kyoto, Cool and simple.
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Soukou from Tokoname, he no longer make teapot. (Tokoname)
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
purple clay – typical Banko clay – make taste of tea better
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
old Banko teapot
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Tokoname teapot, firing with shell on the teapot(Tokoname)
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Full relief carving of chrysanthemum. Beautiful in details and in whole(Tokoname)
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Yoshiki Murata, surface is tapped by special tool.(Tokoname)
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Bizen Teapot, it is like iron.
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Banko teapot – traditional style
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Carving – Kodo Yoshikawa, lucky trees design of Japan , Plum, Pine, Bamboo(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Bizen teacup and Tokoname teapot with seaweed lines. Both are no glazing.(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Blue teapot with white clay – wood firing. Sou Yamada. (Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Jinshu from Tokoname. Cute and elegant.(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Fugetsu(teapot) and Kodo (carving) collaboration(Tokoname)
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Blue& white Houhin from Kyoto. Blue mountain.
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Old banko teapot with lacy gourd
 Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
White clay side handle teapot with seaweed lines. (Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Motozo, Maple teapot, His art, color, texture are warm.(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
The Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Setsudo & Kodo, Yoshikawa brothers)(Tokoname)
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Modern Porcelain teapot and antique blue & white teacup – red lacquer tray. Combination of old & new.
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Kato Seisho teapot , gorgeous & grace
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Shine that was made in kiln
Beautiful Japanese Kyusu Teapot, Tokyo Teapot  Shop, Shiha Tea & Comfort, Japan
Banko from Meiji-Taisho era- teapot for export to Europe.

=== About SHIHA TEA & COMFORT===   

We are Japanese Teapot, Pottery Tea Ware Shop in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2012. Specialize in high-end Japanese teapots.   

Website: https://shihateacomfort.com
Online shop: https://shihateapot.com