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Japanese ceramic Hagi yaki (Hagi ware) made by Kohei Tanaka. Guinomi Sake cup with wooden box.

What kind of drinking ware when you taste sake? Just like a wine glass or beer cup, the kind of the sake cups (guinomi/choko) make the taste different. It is due to the materials, shapes, and even colors.

 

 

The feature of the Hagi ware is “shibui” when I express it with a Japanese word. It is low-keyed and aesthetic. Because the pottery was born from the spirits of “wabi” and “sabi” at the tea ceremony.

 

They don’t have flowery colors and patterns like Imari-yaki or Kutani-yaki, or glitter like an Edo-kiriko. But they have unique shapes and subtly changing colors on the surfaces. You would grow attached to the only one sake cup.

 

And the different shapes also give you its characteristic feeling when you hold it and put to your mouth. 


Traditional pottery Hagi ware

 

Origin

During the Age of Civil Wars, the high‐powered daimyos, Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) became the patron of Sen-no Riyu (1522-1591). 

 

He established the Japanese tea ceremony and pursued the idea of “wabi” and “sabi”. And Mōri Terumoto (1553-1625) also has the association with the great tea master. He had often thought to create a new pottery for tea bowls.

 

From 1592 to 1598, the Japanese armies invaded the Korean Peninsula by the order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Though the invasion fell through, the daimyos including Terumoto taken the Korean pottery from the country to Japan. Because the Korean ceramic were most popular for the tea ceremony.

 

The feudal lord of Hagi Domain Mōri Terumoto treated the potteries Lee Shakuko and Lee Kei (brother) with hospitality and make them create a pottery of Hagi. It was the origin of Hagi-yaki.

 

Features

The texture of a Hagi ware is soft and plump. Most of the wares don’t have painting. They express the beauty with only the shapes and the colors and patterns of the clay and glaze.

 

The craftsmen of the Hagi ware mix three soil, Mishima (red), Daido (gray), and Mitake (white). And they mainly use the loquat color glaze or white bush clover color glaze. 

 

The more you use it the more they change the colors. That is called as “various changes of Hagi ware”.

 

See other pages of Hagi-yaki

 

Japanese tea set

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Sake bottles

 

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Hagi ware sake cups by the traditional craftsmen

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Yamato Kiyoshi

 

 

 

Japanese traditional ceramic Hagi ware.Hagi ido guinomi sake cup made by Kiyoshi Yamato.

 

 

 

 

Japanese traditional ceramic Hagi ware.Hagi ido guinomi sake cup made by Kiyoshi Yamato.

 

 

 

 

Matsuno Sohei

 

Black and white guinomi Sake cup made by Sohei Matsuno. Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. White glaze and black guinomi Sake cup made by Sohei Matsuno. Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Warikodai gold glaze guinomi Sake cup made by Sohei Matsuno. Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic.

 

 

 

 

Sakakura Zenemon

 

Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Guinomi Sake cup made by Zenemon Sakakura. Paper box. Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Guinomi Sake cup made by Zenemon Sakakura. Paper box. Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Guinomi Sake cup made by Zenemon Sakakura. Wooden box.

 

 

 

Utagawa Keizan

 

Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Sake guinomi cup made by Keizan Utagawa. Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Sake guinomi cup made by Keizan Utagawa. Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Sake guinomi cup made by Keizan Utagawa.

 

 

 

Tahara Takao

 

Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. White guinomi sake cup with wooden box made by Takao Tahara. Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Decorative guinomi sake cup with wooden box made by Takao Tahara. Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Flowing white guinomi sake cup with wooden box made by Takao Tahara.

 

 

 

 

Yamato Keita

 

Japanese traditional ceramic Hagi ware. White sake cup made by Keita Yamato.

 

 

 

Japanese traditional ceramic Hagi ware. Shinsha sake cup made by Keita Yamato. Japanese traditional ceramic Hagi ware. Shinsha sake cup made by Keita Yamato.

 

 

 

Japanese traditional ceramic Hagi ware. Shinsha red guinomi sake cup with wooden box made by Keita Yamato. Japanese traditional ceramic Hagi ware. Guinomi sake cup with wooden box made by Keita Yamato. Japanese traditional ceramic Hagi ware. Shinsha red guinomi sake cup with wooden box made by Keita Yamato.

 

 

 

Japanese traditional ceramic Hagi ware. Guinomi sake cup with wooden box made by Keita Yamato.

 

 

 

 

Tanaka Kohei

 

Japanese ceramic Hagi yaki (Hagi-ware) made by Kohei Tanaka. Guinomi Sake cup with wooden box. Japanese ceramic Hagi yaki (Hagi-ware) made by Kohei Tanaka. Guinomi Sake cup with wooden box. Japanese ceramic Hagi yaki (Hagi-ware) made by Kohei Tanaka. Guinomi Sake cup with wooden box. Japanese ceramic Hagi yaki (Hagi-ware) made by Kohei Tanaka. Guinomi Sake cup with wooden box.

 

 

 

Japanese ceramic Hagi yaki (Hagi-ware) made by Kohei Tanaka. Guinomi Sake cup with wooden box. Japanese ceramic Hagi yaki (Hagi-ware) made by Kohei Tanaka. Guinomi Sake cup with wooden box. Japanese ceramic Hagi yaki (Hagi-ware) made by Kohei Tanaka. Guinomi Sake cup with wooden box.

 

 

 

 

Matsuo Yuuka

 

Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Guinomi sake cup with wooden box made by Yuuka Matsuo. Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Guinomi sake cup with wooden box made by Yuuka Matsuo.

 

 

 

 

Hagi yaki Japanese ceramic. Guinomi sake cup with wooden box made by Yuuka Matsuo.

 

 

 

 

Kaneta Keien

 

 

Guinomi Sake cup warikodai made by Keien Kaneta. Japanese ceramic Hagiyaki. Guinomi Sake cup kairagi made by Keien Kaneta. Japanese ceramic Hagiyaki.

 

 

 

Guinomi Sake cup warikodai made by Keien Kaneta. Japanese ceramic Hagiyaki. Guinomi Sake cup white made by Keien Kaneta. Japanese ceramic Hagiyaki.

 

 

 

 

Kaneta Tomoaki

 

 

Guinomi Sake cup made by Tomoaki Kaneta. Guinomi Sake cup made by Tomoaki Kaneta.

 

 

 

Other traditional craft sake cups

 

Kutani ware pottery sakecups

Imari (Arita) pottery sake cups and bottles

Edo-kiriko glass sake cups

Tin sake cups

 

 

 

 

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