Kumi-dashi

Kumi-dashi, a type of Japanese teaware, features a broad rim and shallow design, ideal for serving high-quality Japanese teas like sencha and gyokuro. Its design allows both the brewer and the guests to appreciate the color of the tea, enhancing the tea-drinking experience.

We have gathered Japanese teacups from all over Japan to enrich your relaxing tea time. Not only beautiful to look, but they are also functional for daily use. Find your favorite one from our collection!

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Product Series of Hirota Glass

Each series of Hirota Glass products has a unique, lovely, beautiful name.

Bamboo

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Arare

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Tsubomi and Hana

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Bamboo

This series is designed in the shape and color of bamboo, a plant representative of Asia. These sake pitchers and sake cups are perfect for adding an oriental atmosphere to your home decor while giving a contemporary impression.

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Arare

The word "arare" means hail. By carving fine diamond-like patterns of Kiriko (glass cutting) on the bottom of the sake carafe or sake cup, it adds a beautiful effect of hailstones falling on the poured sake.

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Tsubomi and Hana

This series was created as the ultimate glass for enjoying Japanese sake. The “Tsubomi”, meaning "Bud” glass is for junmai sake, which has a rich flavor, and the “Hana” means “Flower”, glass is for sake called “Daiginjo", the most aromatic of all sake.

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Taisho Roman

This is one of Hirota Glass's most popular series, featuring patterns of clear glass and milky white glass. Only antique stores or Hirota Glass can offer the glassware with searing technique of milky white glass, which was popular in the Meiji and Taisho periods.

Karai

Meaning "flower bud," the products of this name are, as the name suggests, elegantly shaped like a bud of flowers. This glassware series are also combines traditional techniques and designs such as Edo Kiriko, essence of Taisho Romanticism, and “Kan-nyu” which Edo Glass technique that creates ice-like patterns.

Chirori

“Chirori" is a unique Japanese tool made of tin or copper for heating sake, but Hirota Glass has created a beautiful glass version. This series is made of heat-resistant glass and can be used both hot and cold.

Yukinohana

Means “Snow Flower”, is a Japanese word that expresses the image of snow crystals or snowdrops blooming in the snowfall. This is an emotional series made using the same molds that have been used by Hirota Glass since the Showa Period (1926-1989).

Uruoshi

It is a Japanese word meaning "water moisture”. It is a series of glass bottles made of highly transparent glass with a pure, clear atmosphere with a unique form.

Kagome

It is the name of a traditional Japanese pattern, meaning the mesh of a basket woven of bamboo, and has been an emblem to repel evil since ancient times. This product is a reproduction of an excellent piece of pressed glass (“Oshigata”) remaining from Hirota Glass's 50-year catalog.