{"product_id":"chasen-cream-box-8","title":"Chasen Cream No. 8 · Golden Bamboo, 60 Tines · Usucha","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWarm golden bamboo · black thread · 60 very fine, deeply curled tines · one of a kind\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA generous, deep-bellied whisk in warm golden bamboo, bound in black thread. Its \u003cstrong\u003e60 very fine outer tines\u003c\/strong\u003e sweep outward and roll into tight curls at the rim, giving a large working surface — excellent for drawing a thick, fine-bubbled foam on thin matcha (usucha) in a wider bowl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-cut from a single piece of bamboo in Takayama, Nara — the district that has made Japan's tea whisks for five centuries. Ours come from four artisans we met there, introduced through the town's chasen museum where the makers gather. \u003cstrong\u003eOne of a kind — we have only this piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy this isn't a thirty-dirham whisk.\u003c\/strong\u003e Most chasen sold today — including many sold as premium — are produced at volume in China from bamboo cut months earlier, oil-drained with chemical help and boxed with a silica-gel sachet because it never fully dried. That faint stale smell doesn't stay in the box; it transfers into the tea. This one began as bamboo cut in its third year, sun-dried through the January cold of the Ikoma mountains, then stored two more years until the moisture was gone — roughly five years before the first cut was made. \u003ca href=\"\/ar\/pages\/takayama-chasen-masters\"\u003eHow we found the makers →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCare:\u003c\/strong\u003e rest on a whisk holder (\u003cem\u003ekusenaoki\u003c\/em\u003e), rinse in warm water only, air-dry. Never soak or machine-wash.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aicha Teas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51322259472630,"sku":"CHASEN-C8","price":600.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/9576\/3190\/files\/file-00000000ab70820abac719c7814bcefe.png?v=1784707039","url":"https:\/\/www.myaicha.com\/ar\/products\/chasen-cream-box-8","provider":"Aicha Teas","version":"1.0","type":"link"}