Physical Object / Tea whisk and sheath

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Title: Tea whisk and sheath
Creator: Unknown
Contributing Institution: California State University, Sacramento Library
Collection: Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
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Description: When transporting utensils to the site of an outdoor tea gathering, the tea whisk (chasen) is stored in a lacquered wooden sheath (chasenzutsu) inside of the tea utensil box (chabako). It is removed from the sheath during the tea procedure and used to whip the tea to a froth.
Type: physical object
Format: 4 1/4""h
Bamboo with lacquered wood sheath
Identifier: 2005.05.0059.06
54
Case 2, Shelf 2
425.cpd
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/teaware/id/424
Subject: Chasen
Chasenzutsu
Japanese tea ceremony
Tea making paraphernalia
Implements, utensils, etc.
Relation: Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection

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