御箸司 市原平兵衞商店

Ichihara Heibei began in 1764 as the chopstick master to the Imperial Household — the title itself is the shop's signboard. More than 400 kinds of chopsticks line the shop, from table use to tea kaiseki and cooking, the combinations of material and shape alone making a speciality. The signature Miyakobashi uses soot bamboo about 150 years old: bamboo once hidden behind ceilings as building material, smoked by hearth and stove for a century and a half, its tips then finished by hand with the shop's own techniques. Shirasugi Rikyu chopsticks (ten pairs) cost ¥1,400 before tax; Tetsuboku costs ¥2,400.

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