Ceramic Ginger/Garlic graters

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July 7, 2009 at 1:16 am #4470

adania
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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?

July 12, 2009 at 4:51 am #4660

miwa
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Hello! 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?

July 12, 2009 at 4:55 am #4661

miwa
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This one is very pretty.

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/sara-cera/s0005660/

from rakuten online store……

July 15, 2009 at 1:07 pm #4662

adania
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Wow! 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…
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