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  • Chawan
    It is a bowl used to drink tea.
    It is the general name of pottery for foods. But In Japan it means the porcelain to import for drugs and drink tea. Chawan has been generally used to name the porcelain. Therefore, it is also called as tea cup.

  • Chasun
    It is a utensil made of bamboo which was used to put tea powder in Dawan and pour hot water and stir for tea and water to mix well. According to the number of bamboo pieces, there are patterns of 80, 100 and 120.
    The history recorded that in the first year of the foundation of Goryeo Dynasty, Taejo Wang Geon used Chasun to drink and give Noewon Tea, which seems to be the basis of using this utensil. The first literature appeared in 『DaekwanChalon』(Song Dynasty). Around the year 1270, its name appeared specifically in 『Dagudochan』 which was made of palm tree barks.

  • Chajak
    It is a kind of tea utensils. It is a spoon for a tea server or for a powdered tea in the tea serving instrument. It is generally made of bamboo but also made of ivory, wood, lacquer ware, Silver sands, and earthenware. Its length is about 18cm. An ivory spoon for drugs is the origin in the era of Song Dynasty in China.

  • Chasi
    Spoon to stir tea. It is a utensil to take tea from a tea container and put it in Dakwan or Dawan. It is also called as Chachik.
    The tea spoon differs by powder tea and leaf tea. The tea spoon for powder tea is made of bamboo, ivory and silver to take tea powder. The tea spoon for leaf tea has a shape of half stem and it is also made of Chinese quince tree or jujube tree.

  • Chaban
    It is a tray to carry tray and tea cups to arrange tea utensils.
    Woods are mostly used for its material, and its shape is circle, square, rectangle, oval, and octagon.
    Chaban is also called as Yeban to lay tea bowls on or the tray to place a table of foods before guests on the wedding feast or the birthday party.

  • Chakwan
    It is a bowl to mix boiled water with tea and to brew tea.
    Chakwan has a shape of top handle hung on the body like a kettle, a shape of back handle hung in the back, and a shape of side handle hung on the side. It is the bowl to brew tea. There is a bowl without handle among small bowls but normally the bowl to brew tea has a handle.