Suribachi and surikogi are a Japanese mortar and pestle. These mortars are used in Japanese cooking to crush different ingredients such as sesame seeds.
Small sized suribachi with black sesame seeds in it, and a medium-sized surikogi made out of wood
Zanthoxylum piperitum, also known as Japanese pepper or Japanese prickly-ash, is a deciduous aromatic spiny shrub or small tree of the citrus and rue family Rutaceae, native to Japan and Korea.
Fruit and seeds
Fresh green Japanese pepper in a supermarket in Japan