thumb|Tea caddy (chaire) in katatsuki (shouldered [[jar) form. Mino or Seto stoneware with iron glaze, ivory lid, Momoyama period c. 1590 and circa 1599]] thumb|Tea container (natsume) with phoenix (mythology)|phoenix, Nashiji ground with [[gold maki-e, 19th century]]
thumb|Tea caddy (chaire) in katatsuki (shouldered [[jar) form. Mino or Seto stoneware with iron glaze, ivory lid, Momoyama period c. 1590 and circa 1599]] thumb|Tea container (natsume) with phoenix (mythology)|phoenix, Nashiji ground with [[gold maki-e, 19th century]]
Chaki () is a Japanese term that literally means "tea implement". In the vocabulary of Japanese tea ceremony, it broadly means (1) any implement used in the practice of chanoyu, and more narrowly means (2) the caddy for the powdered green tea (matcha) used in the tea-making procedures, although usually this implies (3) the caddies used in the procedures for making thin tea (usucha). In this article, the term applies to definition 2.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).