A kettle that is never empty
Where the name comes from
There is an old folk tale from Japan called Bunbuku Chagama. A poor man freed a tanuki from a trap. To repay him, the tanuki turned himself into a tea kettle. The kettle poured and poured and was never empty.
The tale has been told for several hundred years. We did not invent it and we do not own it. We borrowed its best idea: the luck was only ever in the sharing.
Why there are two cups
Look at any picture here and you will find two cups. One is for you. The other is for whoever you pour for.
That is also why a parcel can carry a note, and why a gift parcel never carries a price.
What is in the pouch
Dried leaves, roots, flowers, bark and spice. The ingredients are printed on every blend page, heaviest first. Nothing else is added.
Each blend page also gives the leaf, the water and the time, so the first cup comes out the way we make it.
Where the blends come from
The tanuki slipped in a redwood stream and came up, for a moment, as a kettle. He has been whispering recipes ever since. Each blend has its own story.