Nomu: Tea, Sake and Smoking Vessels

A red raku tea bowl by Raku Chojiro, the potter who worked for Sen no Rikyu, shares a show with a cloisonné tobacco pipe and five gilded 20th-century teacups. The link is one Japanese verb: nomu, which covers drinking tea, drinking sake and smoking.

The 128 works are split into those three ways to nomu. Tea brings bowls, sencha utensils, glass and Western cups. Sake brings flasks and cups, from a Momoyama Oribe cup to an Edo purple-glass bottle. Smoking brings pipes, tobacco trays and paintings of people using them. Ikeda, like nearby Itami and Nishinomiya, was an Edo-period sake town, and the three towns' museums run a stamp rally across their autumn shows.

No reviews have appeared, so judge it by the list: mostly ceramics and lacquer from Kobayashi Ichizo's collection. Adults pay 700 yen. On Sundays the museum serves matcha and sweets in Sokushin-an, a tea room with chairs, so your knees survive the tea ceremony; tickets go on sale at reception from 10:00.