bamboo whisk

Tea ceremony tool

A bamboo whisk is a traditional Japanese tea utensil used to mix powdered green tea (matcha) with hot water.

Called a chasen in Japanese, it has dozens of fine tines carved from a single piece of bamboo, creating the frothy consistency essential to the tea ceremony: She used a bamboo whisk to prepare the matcha.

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