Making a Kettle for Chanoyu, Wazuku Iron Kettles: Boiling Hot Water for Tea

If you break down the process of producing a kettle into precise detail, it can easily involve more than 100 individual steps and is an undertaking that requires time and patience.
A mold is made using sand and fine soil. First, a wood shell is secured in a frame and the outer surface of the kettle is formed in the sand and soil mixture.