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Kama (釜) is a Japanese term meaning metal pot or kettle. The specific term for a kama used in the Japanese tea ceremony is chagama (茶釜, "tea kettle"). Kama are made of cast iron or copper and are used to heat the water used to make tea. The ro (sunken hearth) is used during autumn and winter when it is cold. In the Tatami flooring of the ...
Also of similar plot is the Japanese version retold by Iwaya Sazanami , also published in English as "The Tea-Kettle of Good-Luck" in the anthology Iwaya's Fairy Tales of Old Japan (1903) translated by Hannah Riddell. [24] Iwaya's version that appeared in Nihon Otogibanashi is said to have established enduring recognition of the tale in Japan.
Kamameshi (釜飯 "kettle rice") is a Japanese rice dish traditionally cooked in an iron pot called a kama. Many varieties exist, but most consist of rice seasoned with soy sauce or mirin, and cooked with meats and vegetables. In modern times, it is often considered a type of takikomi gohan (mixed rice dish).
"The pot calling the kettle black" is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of the 17th century. It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection , [ 1 ] or hypocrisy . [ 2 ]
A Japanese honorific term for a pot, kettle, or cauldron, such as a chagama; A Japanese slang term for a homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or cross ...
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Irori. An irori (囲炉裏, 居炉裏) is a traditional Japanese sunken hearth fired with charcoal. Used for heating the home and for cooking food, it is essentially a square, stone-lined pit in the floor, equipped with an adjustable pothook – called a jizaikagi (自在鉤) and generally consisting of an iron rod within a bamboo tube – used for raising or lowering a suspended pot or kettle ...
Kyūsu pots with side handle (right) and top handle, design by Masahiro Mori Kyūsu tea pot with side handle. A kyūsu (急須) is a traditional Japanese teapot mainly used for brewing green tea. They're also common in the Nizhny Novgorod area of Russia, where they're called Kisyushka (a term derived from Japanese).