JAPANESE CHASEN
esembling a brittle and beautiful wooden flower, the Japanese chasen is a whisk that has been used to prepare delicious matcha in Japan since the 15th century. The meticulous art of chasen-making is pretty mind-blowing: each of the whisk’s bristles (known as tines) are individually carved from a single piece of bamboo, with most chasens containing between 80 and 120 tines. The first record of the chasen goes back to the Muromachi period, when Murata Jukō, founder of the Japanese tea ceremony, requested the artisan tea tool from the village of Takayama. He thought the whisks