HM BOWL / Asagi

1. A pale color that could be blue or could be green
2. White speckles from unofu glaze, with an amber rim
3. 14 cm high, so cats drink in a natural posture
4. Shallow and wide, so whiskers stay clear
5. A generous 500 ml. Works as a food bowl too
6. Around 1,300 g - steady, hard to tip
7. The bowl lifts out to wash. Microwave and dishwasher safe
8. Solid walnut and Mino ware porcelain
9. Also suits small and medium dogs

The color of stone,
after rain.

A pale color that could be blue, could be green - the color of a stone.
HM BOWL in Asagi is covered in the soft speckling of unofu glaze, with amber showing only along the rim, where the glaze runs thin. Fill it with water and the color at the bottom deepens, just a little.
The form is the same as the nine-color HM BOWL. The 14 cm height developed with a veterinarian, and the base in solid walnut. Everything that makes it kind to a cat stays; what changed is the color and the surface.
It comes to you as its own bowl, separate from the nine.

A white haze, drawn by unofu glaze.

Unofu is a glaze long used in Japanese pottery, named for the small white deutzia blossom. As it fires, fine white speckles rise to the surface and the bowl comes out looking as though a haze has settled over it.
How the speckles fall depends on the temperature inside the kiln and the thickness of the glaze, so no two are ever patterned the same. The amber at the rim was not drawn there either. It is simply what this glaze does.

Asagi, between blue and green.

Asagi is the pale blue that appears when indigo is dyed lightly. The name comes from the color of a young spring onion leaf, and it holds the faintest green inside the blue.
This bowl behaves the same way: blue in soft light, greener when the sun reaches it. That drift between blue and green is what the old color name describes.
Over it, the white speckling of the unofu glaze lays a thin haze - settling Asagi into something as quiet as stone.

14 cm, so they drink in a natural posture.

A bowl on the floor pulls the neck down, and over time that asks something of the body each time a cat drinks. At 14 cm, kittens through to senior cats can drink standing naturally.

Shallow and wide, so whiskers stay clear.

At 14.5 cm across and 4.5 cm deep, the dish is shallow and open: the face does not sink in, and whiskers stay off the rim. It takes a small, daily stress out of drinking.

A generous 500 ml. Easy on days out.

At around 500 ml there is room to spare for a long day alone, or for a cat who drinks a lot. It suits households with one or two cats. It also holds about 200 g of dry food, so it works as a food bowl.

Around 1,300 g. Steady, hard to tip.

The weight is real enough that a cat bumping into it will not send it over, which means less worry about water on the floor.

The bowl lifts out to wash.

Porcelain does not absorb water, so it stays hygienic. The bowl lifts off the base to wash, and is dishwasher and microwave safe. The wooden base only needs a firmly wrung cloth.

Solid walnut and Mino ware, quietly in tune.

The base is solid walnut from Akita, hand-finished by craftsmen in Hida Takayama. The warmth of the wood catches the stone-like glaze from below. It is the base that keeps the Asagi bowl from reading as cold.

Set it beside CHALICE / Asagi.

There is also a food bowl finished in the same glaze: CHALICE / Asagi. Match the dish for food to the dish for water and your cat's table becomes one scene.
▶ See CHALICE / Asagi

Set the whole feeding spot, not just the bowl.

For the place the bowls sit, there is FIKA / food mat.
Solid oak framing ceramic tile, sized to hold a food bowl and a water bowl side by side.
Spills wipe away - nothing to wash. At around 2.2 kg it stays put when a cat steps on it, and the wooden frame has a recess on each side so it is easy to lift.
Make your cat's eating place part of the room.
▶ See FIKA / food mat

The other nine colors.

HM BOWL also comes in nine Japandi colors, where Japanese shadow meets Scandinavian softness.
Kinu, Tonoko, Mizugaki, Shiraai, Ayame, Keshizumi, Harizuri, Shiratsuchi and Sumiguro.
Choose by your cat's coat, or by the colors of your room.
▶ See HM BOWL (nine colors)