Collection: Tawashi & Sasara Brushes

A sasara is a traditional Japanese kitchen brush made from thin bamboo sticks bound tightly with copper, steel or bamboo. It is used for scrubbing, whisking and mixing, with versions made for cleaning fish, scrubbing woks and iron pans, or stirring miso into dashi.

A tawashi is a tightly bound coil of dense shuro palm fibers, made in a range of sizes. It is mostly used for cleaning, and suits wooden kitchenware such as hinoki cutting boards and bamboo steamers, where soap or detergent is often not used.

A smaller brush, the yakumiyose, is used when grating wasabi, daikon or ginger.