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Japanese Traditional Clay Suribachi

Japanese Serrated Mortar

A Japanese Suribachi is a earthenware mortar with a clay serrated interior surface. Almost every Japanese kitchen is equipped with a suribachi and surikogi (wooden pestle) for grinding seeds and herbs or pur�eing. Suribachi are most widely popular for grinding sesame seeds and salt to make fresh gomashio (sesame salt).

Japanese Surikogi

Traditional Wooden Pestle


	This traditionally-crafted Japanese wooden pestle is the accompaniment to the suribachi listed above. Wood is the ideal material to match your earthenware suribachi, as it is a natural substance and will not scratch the surface of the serrated mortar. Made with Japanese Magnolia.