Japanese Ceramic Oribe Ware Cooking Fat Skimmer Pot Vtg Araire Green Beige Y209 Tea Ceremony 14 cm wide x 3

14 cm wide x 3

The tag says Hida Shishimai Clay Bell 飛騨獅子舞土鈴

This negative plate with two pictures is an interesting testimony of the life in Japan in the 1900s

It has an abstract splash of brown for an accent

Signature on the bottom (yoshigama)

Japanese Ceramic Oribe Ware Cooking Fat Skimmer Pot Vtg Araire Green Beige Y209 Tea Ceremony 14 cm wide x 3Vtg Japanese Ceramic Cooking Fat Skimmer Pot This is a small vintage ceramic Japanese pot called araire. It is a useful and unique accessory for nabe and shabushabu. The pot is filled with a shallow layer of water, then, when the hotpot shabushabu stew etc has fat or scum floating on the surface, you use a fine sieve ladle to collect it. After, you dip the sieve into the water inside the pot to clean it off. It also acts as a storage pot for both