February 14, 2023

A Valentine's Day delivery

I'd always wanted to have one of these tea ovens, especially the smallest size, for boiling tea, heating tea in a cup, warming wine, burning essential oil in a saucer, even burning incense. I frequently see them as props in wuxia, multi-episode Chinese sword dramas, though such items are really from ancient Japan and known as magic tea kettles, or bunbuku chagama. I did buy the biggest size a few years back, but was dismayed that it was too big for our tea cart; I now simply use it as a brazier for chilly days and nights.

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