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2024 Holiday Gift Guide

Here are our staff's hand-selected picks for gifting thoughtful
tea times to your loved ones this season 💚

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Mizuba Holiday Gift Guide

Austin Danson Ceramics

Mizuba Tea Co. || Austin Danson

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These sublime, artisan tea bowls are uniquely hand-crafted by Los Angeles-based artist Austin Danson. Distinctly a work of attentive craftsmanship and skill, Austin exhibits a variety of tea bowl styles. His work explores traditional Japanese and Korean forms, in addition to evolving his work with different glaze and firing techniques. 

Whisking, sipping, and appreciating Mizuba Matcha green tea from an Austin Danson chawan is an unparalleled experience and one we are very proud to share with you. 

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Handcrafted Teaware

Artist Exclusive Chawan Tea Bowls

Austin Danson art for Mizuba Tea Co. Handmade chawan tea bowlsWolf Ceramics exclusive to Mizuba Tea CO.
Mizuba is thrilled to hand-pick independent artists, and collaborate with them on one-of-a-kind chawan tea bowl commissions. Each piece is a singular, exceptional work from Austin's or Sarah's* own hands. Once you claim your chawan, it truly is only yours to enjoy your #MatchaMoment from.
*photo by Matthew Thornton

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Hōjicha Teas


Hōjicha, also spelled houjicha or hojicha, is a world unto itself in Japanese green tea. Unlike Japan's ubiquitous steamed green teas, houjicha teas have been roasted! Take this opportunity to try different styles, from a traditional classic (Kyô-bancha), to a modern, elegant blend (chamomile houjicha), to our delicious powdered version for your lattes & recipes!

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One scoop of organic powdered Hojicha Japanese tea

Loose Leaf Tea

Loose Leaf Tea

You know Mizuba for our matcha of exceptional character and quality. Over the years and throughout our travels to Japan, we've also had the privilege of enjoying superlative loose-leaf teas. With great excitement, we present to you our curated Japanese heritage loose-leaf collection. Each of these teas is carefully selected from farmers & producers we personally know.
 Here you'll find teas rarely found outside of Japan.
(You know you'll want to try sipping tencha - the loose leaf where matcha comes from!

Every Mizuba tea you taste conveys the passion of the producer. You can truly taste the difference versus industrialized commodity tea.

Every tea we purchase supports small, independent tea producers in Japan. 

Looking for teaware to brew your exquisite new tea in?

Check out the new teapots & traditional tea tools in our teaware collection. 

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Japanese Loose Leaf Tea by Mizuba Tea Co.

Matcha Powder

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Matcha Green Tea Powders

Every Mizuba tea matcha you taste conveys the passion of the producer. You can truly taste the difference versus industrialized commodity tea.

Every green tea powder purchased supports small, independent tea producers in Japan. 

 Our matcha is nonGMO, certified radiation-free, certified heavy metal-free, and 100% direct from Uji, Japan. 


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Woman smiles while looking at a Japanese matcha green tea stone mill

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Our award-winning tea producers craft their amazing teas in the lush fields of Uji, Japan—renowned for producing some of the finest teas in the world. By subscribing, you’ll enjoy fresh, artisanal matcha at peak flavor, shipped directly from its source – and save money.


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Teaware and Tea Tools

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Complete matcha tea set from Japan including chasen, chawan, and chashaku

Wolf Ceramics

Mizuba Tea Co. || Wolf Ceramics

Photo by Matthew Thornton

Photo by Matthew Thornton

With the launch of our beautiful new chawan line, we thought we'd introduce you to the exquisite artist behind them. Meet Sarah Wolf of Wolf Ceramics, and enjoy her musings behind each artful tea bowl.

Tea bowls. How do they speak to you?

Wolf: I love making tea bowls. They’re attractive to me both because of their aesthetic, and because of the experience of drinking from them. The aesthetic attraction comes from having a beautiful bowl shape that's elevated by a small and delicate foot. The elevated foot makes the bowl and its contents seem precious in some way. The most intuitive way to drink from a tea bowl is to cradle it between both hands. Not only is it soothing to hold its warm body between your palms, but it forces the user to stop whatever else they may be doing – and reminds him or her to be present in the experience of the tea. You literally can’t do something else at the same time, if it takes both hands to sip from the bowl.

Mizuba and Wolf Ceramics Tea Bowl. Handmade artisan chawan in Portland, Oregon.

Describe your ceramics journey. What do your pieces say about how far you’ve come, and what do they bring from your past? 

WolfAh! I could say so much! When I was a kid I would play on the floor of my mother’s studio (she’s an artist, a painter). She would let me draw on the floor and make a mess. My favorite medium at the time was Popsicle sticks and hot glue. I was always interested in architecture, and I loved to make tiny houses. In high school, I became interested in ceramics. I actually became rather addicted, but never thought I would make a career of it. I studied chemistry and geology at Whitman College, with the idea that I might go on to a graduate program in architecture, but I always was practicing ceramics on the side...

I later came to realize that one of the most attractive things to me about architecture was the thought of actually building things! But most architects spend the majority of their time in front of the computer these days, which wasn't for me. 

Wolf Ceramics

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After college, I moved to a homestead in the San Juan Islands in Northwest Washington. I wanted to learn useful skills, and I wanted to use my hands. Toward the end of my year in the San Juans, I came back to ceramics. My time there was spent working hard to grow good food, and to care for a piece of land with, and for, good people fulfilled a need within me to be using my body and creating something useful in so many different ways. Making functional ceramics fulfills this need in a very similar way. The process is physically demanding, dirty, even delicate at times – and very satisfying. As I send more and more work out into the world to be used, I feel more and more connected the the community of people who use them.

Over the past two years I have dedicated myself to the practice of making ceramics, and in doing so, I have gradually found my own voice and aesthetic. I think that creativity can sometimes be enhanced by working within restraints. The decision to use only black and white glaze in my current work pushes me to make very intentional choices about form, pattern, line, and negative space. Even within these constraints there are limitless possibilities! I literally lie awake at night with new ideas flooding my mind. Sometimes I have to get out of bed and go draw them.

We love the thought of creativity within boundaries - seldom spoken of, but it requires discipline! So, what is your relationship with clay? 

Wolf: The process of working with clay for me is most often meditative... though if I sit down at the wheel to work on a day when I am not feeling right, it can also be incredibly frustrating.

My background in geochemistry also brings a more scientific and chemical side to the ways that I think about clay and glaze. It is important to me to have an understanding of the processes that take place in the kiln, and the ways in which I can affect these processes.

Mizuba & Wolf Ceramics: chawan tea bowls

What excites you most about making tea bowls?

WolfWhen I make a tea bowl, I am most excited by the thought that someone will use it, and the possibility that their experience of drinking from that tea bowl might somehow have a positive effect on their quality of life at that moment.

What is your relationship with tea? 

Wolf: I drink about 2-4 cups a day, and I often put milk and honey in it. In the winter, I’d rather have a cup of tea than a cup of water. I often drink from a giant mug or jar, but if I drink from a tea bowl, its usually because I am sharing a pot of tea with another person.

We love the communal element of that. Can you describe your influences on your style? 

Wolf: My surface design is affected by my love of architecture and my affinity for clean lines and pattern. My tea bowl forms are certainly affected by Asian aesthetics, but I definitely can’t claim to have a deep understanding of historical tea bowl traditions.

What do you hope a Sarah Wolf chawan owner might enjoy? Might appreciate?

Wolf: I suppose I would hope that one might have an experience similar to mine. I would hope that in holding a warm tea bowl with both hands, one might be drawn away from the rest of the day’s stresses for a moment...

Mizuba & Wolf Ceramic patterned chawan tea bowl

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