A few years ago, when my mother visited Japan, she bought herself a very cute, persimmon-shaped ceramic grater for ginger and garlic. It's the kind that is just a flat disk of pottery, pricked many times before firing to leave raised sharp bumps across the surface to do the grating. It's very cute, and after using hers, i got myself a plain, white, 100yen shop one to use at home.
Well, hers is finally wearing out, and she asked me to find her a new one, but i have no idea where she got hers (it may not have been in Kyoto...)
I have looked around at Nishiki-koji, and in many ceramic shops here and there (including the streets around Kiyomizu), but i haven't found anything similar at all...
Does anyone know where i could find one of these? Especially an attractive handmade one?
Ceramic Ginger/Garlic graters
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adania
MemberPosted 2 years ago # -
miwa
MemberHello! I don't quite understand what you mean by persimmon-shape.
This is ceramic one of those conventional shape, that you can easily get at 100 yen stores.
http://www.living-e.jp/?pid=14487361
I found cute one, not sure if this is hand made, though.
http://kosome.ocnk.net/product/317
If this is what you are looking for, you could image search with おろし器. （oroshi-ki)
Or am I looking for wrong thing?
Posted 2 years ago # -
miwa
MemberThis one is very pretty.
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/sara-cera/s0005660/
from rakuten online store......
Posted 2 years ago # -
adania
MemberWow! Those are very nice! I have never seen any with the dish together before.
The one my mother has is like the normal 100yen ones (like i have!), but instead of being perfectly round, the outline is kaki-shaped, with a sort of stem + leaf bit on one side.Have you seen any nice ceramics shops selling these kind of goods? I don't need it to be a fancy shape, but I want to get her something nicer than 100yen!
I looked around at the tezukuri-ichiba at Chionji today, but I didn't see anything...
Posted 2 years ago #
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