Wooden tea box / Cherry MUJIKAWA 4

Tea box with cherry bark veneer, walnut, cherry and maple wood from Fujiki Denshiro Shoten Kabazaiku products are made from the bark of mountain cherry trees. The word "kabazaiku" is said to have its origins in a long poem in the Japanese poetry collection Manyoshu, in which mountain cherry trees were described as "kaniha", a word which was later transformed into "kaba". Since its founding in 1851, in the city of Kakunodate (Akita Prefecture), the house continues to create high quality kabazaiku. The finely removed and polished bark is called "Muji kawa", while the bark with its original expression is called "Shimofuri kawa" and the more they are used in daily life, the more their color becomes shimmering and keeps the shine of the cherry tree. of Mountain.