What're the 10 Best Sake Cups Made of Mino Ware?

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1 What’re the 10 Best Sake Cups Made of Mino Ware?

What’re the 10 Best Sake Cups Made of Mino Ware?

In this time, we would like to introduce the 10 best sake cups made of Mino ware (yaki), a special type of pottery found in various parts of Japan! If you are wondering what Mino ware is, please take a look at this article! Then, here we go!

1 10 Best Sake Cups Made of Mino Ware

1.Mino Ware Sake Cup Gold Brushstrokes

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The glossy gold look attracts your eyes every time you look at the Tokkuri flask and the cups. The black dots on the dark outer surface multiplies the beauty of the gold brushstrokes, giving great texture.

2.Akashino Bamboo Joint Guinomi Sake Cup

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It is a warm, gentle shade of light red.
Akashino is a type of shino ware made by applying feldspar glaze to a red color by applying sludge with a little iron content.
It is a cup with a warm feeling with a beautiful pale red color.
The base of shino is “Mogusa soil”, which is a white clay with a low iron content. A thick opaque translucent white glaze is applied to the glaze, and the glaze has fine penetrations and small holes called “yuzu-skin,” and the glaze is thin. As for the rim and glaze, a reddish color called “fire color” (scarlet color) is present.

3. Mino Ware Sake Cup – Rusty Blown Guinomi –

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A Mino Ware Sake Cup in black colors. Mino ware is one of the traditional Japanese ceramics made in Gifu Prefecture. This is one of the basic Sake sets that can be often seen in Japanese restaurants.

4. Kikichoko Janome Tasting Sake Cup

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Kikichoko (aka Janome Ochoko) is probably the most-known ochoko cup. Why? Because it’s the one used for Sake tasting by Sake sommeliers.Janome literally means ‘Snake eye’. It’s called Janome because the two blue circles inside the cup look like a snake’s eye. These circles are used for checking the quality of Sake.The white parts are for checking the ‘transparency’ of Sake, while the blue circles are for the gloss of Sake.

5. Mino Ware Sake Cup Blue Stream

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A Mino Ware Sake Cup in blue and black colors.The golden age of Mino ware is said to be during the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1603). With the fad of tea ceremonies, and throughout the contribution of the tea masters of those days such as Senno-Rikyu and Oribe Furuta, the basic style of today’s Mino ware, Kiseto, Setoguro, Shino, and Oribe, were born. The Mino ware with its innovative shape and rich colors that warp well, was revolutionary for the people at that time.

6. Mino Ware Sake Cup Green Oribe

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A Mino Ware Sake Cup in green color.Oribeyaki was created by Furuta Oribe no Shido, who was the apprentice of Sennorikyuu and was a renowned tea practitioner. It is considered to have an innovative shape and patterns among mino warei, and is often made with green glaze.

7. Mino Ware Sake Cup Light Blue

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A beautiful Mino Ware Sake Cup Light Blue.

8. Mino Ware Sake Cup Rainbow

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A Mino Ware Sake Cup Rainbow.A characteristic of Mino ware is that it was developed in each era with new glazes to meet people’s tastes and through various technologies were created with various shapes and colors. For this reason, Mino ware does not just refer to one particular style and instead has various techniques.

9. Mino Ware Sake Kanji Sake Cup

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This Sake cup comes with the kanji of Sake (酒/さけ) painted on the side of the Sake cup. It is a piece of Mino ware which accounts for the majority of the Japanese pottery wares in Japan.