While other chaki are expected to be well-ordered and decent in shape and also are valued for their abstraction, Oribe ware include a number of representational articles, such as irregularly-shaped Kutsukake chawan (tea bowls shaped like a shoe of old times), those with a checkered or geometric-pattern hand painting, and in later years, tableware and incense burners in the shape of a sensu (folding fan) and the like.
整然とした端正な形を好み、抽象を重んじる他の茶器とは違い、歪んだ形の沓（くつかけ）茶碗や、市松模様や幾何学模様の絵付け、後代には扇子などの形をした食器や香炉など、具象的な物が多い。