Collection: Wahokudō

Wahokudō makes Japanese tea whisks (chasen) in Takayama, Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture — a town that has been the centre of chasen production since the Muromachi period.

Each whisk is made by Tango Tanimura, the 20th-generation head of the Tanimura family. The lineage has been making chasen for more than 500 years, and during the Edo period was granted the name "Tango" by the Tokugawa shogunate. The techniques pass through a single heir in each generation, and the work is done almost entirely with one small knife and the fingertips .

Wahokudō's chasen are made from Nara bamboo, well-suited to Japan's climate. Each stalk is shaved layer by layer, with care to leave the bamboo fibres intact. The result is a whisk head that's supple and resilient — the qualities a chasen needs to whisk matcha thoroughly without breaking the foam.