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Small Gifts

Easy to give, nice to get.

Something small to say thank you, well done, or thinking of you. Many arrive boxed, and every one of them is made to be used rather than kept on a shelf.

Made in Japan

Balloon Flower Plate, 16 cm

A small plate patterned with kikyou, the balloon flower, loved in Japan since the earliest poetry anthologies. At 16 cm it is the plate that gets used every day: a slice of cake, a share of the main dish, toast.

$12

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Swallow Rice Bowls: two white porcelain bowls painted with blue swallows, with their yellow box

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Swallow Rice Bowls, Pair

$18

Made in Japan · Handmade

Mt. Fuji Rice Bowl

$19

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Olive Wood Butter Knife

$15

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Noodle-Grip Chopsticks

Chopsticks with deep grooves cut into the tips. Noodles that used to slide away now stay put, and nobody at the table has to know how much easier you are finding it.

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Hammered Teaspoon

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Ridged White Sake Set

$42

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Mosquito Net Kitchen Cloth

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Petite Butter Knife

A butter knife small enough for a single roll, or for the jam jar on a breakfast tray. Plain, polished stainless steel, and one of those small things that makes a table feel properly set.

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Mt. Fuji Rice Bowl in green: turned upside down, the bowl looks like Mt. Fuji with a white snowcap

Made in Japan · Handmade

Mt. Fuji Bowl Pair

$36

Mosquito Net Kitchen Cloth with a small embroidered reading motif

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Kitchen Cloth Pair

$16

Made in Japan · Handmade

Mt. Fuji Sake Cup

$14

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Mt. Fuji Sake Set for One

A small ceramic sake bottle with an earthy, sprayed glaze, paired with one Mt. Fuji cup in the colour you choose.

$34

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Three Cats Plate: a scalloped cream plate with a calico, a tuxedo and a tabby cat sitting side by side, 17 cm

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Three Cats Dessert Plate

$20

Three Cats Mini Bowls, Set of 6: six small scalloped bowls, each with a cat at the bottom, beside their white gift box

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Three Cats Mini Dessert Bowls, Set of 6

$28

Made in Japan · Handmade

Tokusa Stripe Rice Bowl

$19

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Golden Gourd Plates, Set of 2

Each plate is painted by hand: golden gourds hang from a trailing vine among green leaves drawn in fine lines, leaving the rest of the plate open and white for whatever you serve. In Japan the gourd is a charm for good fortune and a long, healthy life.

$36

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