Bringing a splash of color to any ingredient, mealtime is an indispensable part of daily life. While it's great to enjoy a restaurant-like atmosphere at home, what's crucial is having dishes that enhance the presentation of your meals. When shopping for tableware, it's easy to gravitate towards standard colors like white or black, but adding some color to your collection, especially blue, is highly recommended. Surprisingly, blue is even more versatile than white plates. It pairs exceptionally well with bright colors like red and yellow, creating a vivid contrast between the food and the dish, making the meal look beautiful and three-dimensional. This is likely why many people favor blue and white dishes for both Japanese and Western tableware.

Beautiful Blue Porcelain

The AO Large Bowl is a generously sized bowl that serves as a main dish for individuals, or for soups and stews in larger families, allowing for ample servings of hearty dishes in various settings. The smooth surface features a vibrant cobalt blue with a subtle gradient, making every meal a more enjoyable occasion with its beautiful appearance.

The slight outward curve of the rim offers a pleasant eating experience, and its stunning blue color makes it the perfect dish for serving clear, cold broth with udon noodles, inviting you to slurp directly from it. Its modern design makes it suitable for a variety of dishes, whether Japanese or Western, making it an excellent choice for wedding gifts or housewarming presents. Microwave and dishwasher safe, its durability and non-porous material make it easy to handle daily, recommended for those who are hesitant about the fragility of ceramic ware.

Engaging with Pottery

TOJIKITONYA focuses on re-proposing the value of ceramics to modern lifestyles, paying attention to the excellent techniques and products that are lost in the distribution process, and the regions that produce them. "Creating ceramics that can be cherished as everyday items for a long time" embodies a deep commitment to creating regionally-rooted items.

This piece comes from the pottery region of Mino, known for producing a wide range of familiar tableware items, including teacups, plates, and bowls. It's said that about 60% of the country's output comes from this area. Mino ware, a close presence in our modern lives from art pieces to everyday tea bowls, may often go unnoticed. Particularly, the kiln sites in Toki City's Dachicho and Oroshicho, and Tajimi City's Ichinokura have developed as ceramic regions for a long time, backed by high-quality clay, abundant water resources, and suitable basin conditions for kiln building.

In an era where traditional techniques and craftsmen are rapidly declining, TOJIKITONYA aims to inherit the excellent technology and products of the ceramics industry, which has evolved alongside Japan's food culture. Based in the Tokai region, which is rich in ceramic production areas, they are creating new ceramic products in collaboration with local manufacturers and designers.

The AO Large Bowl Set from TOJIKITONYA brings the material and region closer to you the more you use it. We recommend these timeless, beloved Japanese products for your daily life, adding enduring beauty to your table.

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