A place to stop,
every season.

One bowl of matcha, one sweet for the season. Sent each month from Tokyo.

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The December box · order by November 25 · or one box, for you or as a gift →

In the old Japanese calendar, the year is not four seasons but twenty-four. Today it is Rittō — “the beginning of winter.” Autumn is at its most beautiful and the calendar has already moved on. The old year always names the next thing before you are ready for it. Tomari is a place to stop in that gap — between what the calendar says and what the skin can feel — and sends one small thing to mark each turn.

Receive the letters — One letter each season. No noise between.

The Matcha & Wagashi Box with its December cover, a reproduction of Kamisaka Sekka's woodblock print River in Winter
Photo shows a sample box, with lighting and background retouched.

The Matcha & Wagashi Box

A seasonal matcha box from Tokyo, delivered monthly.

$69 a month, shipping included: our founding member price if you subscribe by February 25.

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Begin here — the tea ceremony set

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Incense — for the quiet hours

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What I sell, and where it comes from

Two things: tools for making matcha, and Japanese incense.

The whisks are 100-prong bamboo chasen made in Takayama, Nara, the town that has made Japan’s tea whisks for about five hundred years. The bowls are Mino-yaki, from Japan’s oldest and largest pottery region. The incense includes classic Kyoto blends. I name the maker and the place instead of using invented grades.

Everything ships from Japan. Shipping to the United States is charged by weight, from $22, with no free-shipping threshold, and US import duty is included in the price and paid by us before dispatch. Orders to every other country ship free at US$199 or more, and any duty there is paid on delivery. Most orders arrive in 7–14 days.

A place to put the day down.

I am not a master. I am walking the path — and I choose every tool by hand: honest whisks and bowls from the makers who still make them, and a way of tea gentle enough for a tired heart. Most Japanese people have never held a whisk either. Begin wherever you are; we will learn the rest together.

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The five pieces of the Complete Tea Set: the black Mino-yaki bowl with its pour spout, a Takayama bamboo whisk, the earlier brown matcha sifter (it now comes in glossy black), a maki-e tea caddy and a flat bamboo scoop
The way of tea · chosen by hand

The Complete Tea Set

Everything to begin a quiet ritual — a real Takayama whisk (the one thing that makes or breaks a bowl), a Mino-yaki tea bowl, and the small honest tools I would hand a friend. Chosen by someone still walking the path, not a master. No painful whisk; no guessing what is real.

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Tomari とまりA place to put the day down.