Jul 1, 2025

A Taste of the Season: Matsuri-Style

Written by Team MUSUBI

You don’t need lanterns or festival stalls to enjoy the spirit of a Japanese summer. This table brings that joyful matsuri feeling home, with familiar flavors, generous bowls, and colors that echo the season outside. Crisp skewers, chilled noodles, and takoyaki—everyone’s favorites make the moment feel special. It’s summer, gathered and shared around the table.

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Gather and Enjoy—That’s the Spirit of Summer Big Bowls of Delight Featured Collection

Gather and Enjoy—That’s the Spirit of Summer

Summer bites have a way of drawing people in. Dishes are light, easy to pass, and easy to share. Fried skewers in kushiage style, chilled noodles in glass cups, a few onigiri set out on a tray—meals like these don’t need arranging. They gather naturally on a plate, like the people around them.

Botamochi Square Dinner Plate

Curved bowls, softly rimmed plates, a bamboo basket or two. Even with a square dish here and there, everything settles beautifully on our table. Each piece knows how to hold a meal for your guests.

Black Fine Weave Bamboo Basket

The tones stay soft: the grain of wood, the earthiness of stoneware, the open weave of bamboo. These finishes never don’t outshine the food. Where white porcelain can sometimes feel too stark or clinical, earthy glazes add depth, like good lighting in a quiet room.

Wood‑grain Round Tray

The color comes from the food. Golden corn, glossy red tomatoes, grilled green peppers still warm from the pan—summer brings its own palette.

Tortoise-Shell Patterned Bamboo Strainer

Big Bowls of Delight

The meal may start with small plates, but the mood settles around the big bowls. These MUSUBI KILN originals from Musashi Kiln are made for more than noodles—they’re generous, versatile, and beautiful in a way that fits everyday meals. The yellow rim of the Spinning Stripe Ramen Bowl frames a fruit salad with just the right brightness—sunny, fresh, and completely at home on a summer table.

Spinning Stripe Ramen Bowl 7.7 in

We chose the Swirl Ramen Bowl for chilled shabu-shabu. Each brushstroke is hand-done, echoing the casual elegance of Japanese home cooking.

Swirl Ramen Bowl 7.7 in

Wide bowls like these help release aroma faster, especially with dashi-based dishes. They don’t just present well—they invite the appetite.

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Just the colors of the season, the clink of a toast, a shimmer of Edo Kiriko on the table. It’s a matsuri; something shared, something fun, and something celebrated.”

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Musashi Kiln

Founded in 2006 by Tsujii Musashi in Mizunami City, Gifu Prefecture, Musashi Kiln specializes in the creation of Mino ware. While continuing to shape his own distinct pottery style, Musashi also devotes time to agriculture—a practice that feeds directly into his creative work. Motifs inspired by the fields and waterways around him, such as wheat and aquatic plants, often appear in his designs. The pieces he makes carry a quiet sense of nature, not only in how they look, but in how they feel in the hand.

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