Japanese cast iron

traditional handicrafts, originally uploaded by hibachiya2009.

This is an iron kettle.
It is a kettle in Japan. But, in the present age, the iron kettle is not an errand every day.
It is because maintenance requires trouble.
It is the early days of the Edo era that an iron kettle was made first.
How to make iron kettles does not change for these 400 years.
The iron kettle is sold now in both U.S.A. and France.
However, the abroad iron kettle for is a kettle rather than an iron kettle.
The genuine iron kettle is not made the coating of the rust prevention on inward.
The iron kettle is rusted. I use it while letting you rust.
But it is rusted to be sold and does not go to the foreign countries.
Therefore it is coated so that the inside of the iron kettle does not get rusty.
Therefore I do not say an iron kettle precisely.

In addition, there is the colorful iron kettle. Green, red, blue.
This was made for an abroad kettle for.

Only two kinds of original colors of the iron kettle. It is black and red.
It is red or the expression that got rusty of the iron.
The black pours green tea into the red water and makes it.
The red color puts iron in a water jar and leaves you unattended for one year.
Then the water turns red by rust.
I mix a lacquer tree with this water and make red.
It is black, and water changes color when I pour green tea into the water which became red by this rust.
Tannin iron reacts, and a black color is completed.

I feel wabi sabi in a figure getting rusty in Japan.
You may say so vanity.
The iron kettle is a kettle enjoying vanity.