This handmade bentwood cedar wooden tray looks so minimal and modern, but in fact it is a traditional tea-ceremony serving ware.  This is due to the clean-looking cut of Japanese cedar or cypress.  For bentwood craft-use, the wood grain has to be dense and uniform without knots.  As the earliest bentwood vessels are made to serve gods in Shinto shrines. The wood has to look refined and purified, suitable for gods!  
 
You might easily mistakened this handmade wood tray as Scandinavian design!  However, the design and detail specification was written way back in 16th-18th century for Japanese tea ceremony use.  This is what we call Timelessness!  How about bringing this forward to another century as heirloom houseware?
 
SHIPPING in included in the price!  Email us if you are ordering more items and we can double-check and recalculate shipping for you as needed. 
 
Made with 5mm fine Japanese cedar, uncoated, with the iconic cherry tree bark stitches.  
 
Handmade by Mr. Morita and Ms. Shibata.  Own a piece of unique bentwood craft history from Hakata Fukuoka. 
 
*NOTE:  As with handmade items, you will see artisan's marks on the box.  Some visible marks left from the tools is normal.  This is not a factory mass-produced item.  ShibataToku's woodshop uses machines from over 50-60 years ago. Couple of bentwood machines were invented by the early founders as well.  Hence the touch (tactility) is more rustic than items made by modern-day high-speed power tools.  A lot of parts still relies on hand chiseling and trimming.