Seisuke Yamamoto, Kaikado’s founder and a metal craftsman, designed a tin tea caddy and made it into a commercially available item (he later passed the business to the Yagi family). Even now the ...

Last week we visited Kaikado’s shop in Kyoto, where Takahiro Yagi, the 6th generation of tea caddy makers ... back in 1875 using a new material — tin plate — brought to Japan when it ...