The utensils of chanoyu. Each has one function and a name, and many are named individually: after the place they were made, after a feature of their shape, sometimes after a resemblance. Sadler records kettles called Raisei, thunder-voice, and Ubaguchi, a hag's mouth; the trivet under the kettle is the gotoku, the five virtues. Shown here one at a time.

A. L. Sadler, Cha-No-Yu: The Japanese Tea Ceremony, on the tea utensils. The order they are set down in is not his.