Kaikado

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

For one and a half centuries, the Yagi family has been mastering their craft of creating tea caddies in their Kyoto workshop under the Kaikado name. Currently run by the family’s sixth generation, the enterprise is Japan’s oldest tea caddy manufacturer still in operation and is renowned the world over for their hand made ‘Chazutsu’ cylindrical tea caddies. Created with impeccable precision, using the same 130 processes since the company’s founding in 1865, a lid manufactured this year will silki