Stacking Soup Bowl

This stackable Japanese Yamanaka-nuri soup bowl nests neatly for tidy storage. Its rounded silhouette makes it a charming everyday piece. Product Specification Material: Resin with urethane finish (modern lacquerware) Origin: Made in Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa, Japan Microwave Safe: Yes Dishwasher Safe: Yes Oven / IH / Open Flame: No Heat/Cold Resistance: -4°F to 284°F (-20°C to 140°C) Dimensions Height: 2.4 in (6 cm) Diameter: 4.4 in (11.2 cm) About Yamanaka-nuri In the late 1500s a community of lathe-turners settled at Yamanaka Onsen, the hot-spring district of what is now Kaga City in Ishikawa, and began turning wooden bowls as souvenirs for people who came to take the waters. Four hundred years later the district is still known as kiji no Yamanaka - Yamanaka of the wood - and remains Japan's foremost center of woodturning, where timber is cut vertically so the lathe follows the grain and a bowl can be turned remarkably thin. Those same workshops also lead Japan's kindai shikki, or modern lacquerware, and that is what this piece is: a resin body finished in urethane rather than wood and urushi. The substitution is deliberate. It keeps the region's forms and its deep, even sheen, but it is light, it will not chip when it is dropped, it takes colors and shapes that wood could never hold, and it goes straight into the microwave and the dishwasher.