Tableware Sets

The pieces that go on the table: rice, ramen and donburi bowls, small sauce dishes, sushi plate sets, glass sake cups, chopsticks and their rests, and larger bowls and platters for serving. Most are ceramic, glass or wood; a few sets are melamine, chosen deliberately for durability, and those listings say so.

Japanese tableware is built around many small dishes rather than one large plate, which is why so much of it comes in sets of four, five or six. The range is chosen to sit together, so mix pieces across sets freely. Each listing notes whether an item is dishwasher or microwave safe, because for wood, lacquer and some glazes the answer is no.