Goldfish Maki-e Glass Sake Cup

This exquisite golden sake cup features an intricately painted miniature goldfish. The red and white hues of the goldfish stand out beautifully against the shimmering gold base, creating a truly harmonious visual contrast.

This glass sake cup is coated with transparent lacquer, and its uneven brushed layer produces a lavish and varied reflection of gold, accentuating the flexible imagery of the goldfish at the base. The glass sake cup is delicate and lightweight with exceptional transparency, allowing the sake's texture to be beautifully showcased.

Perfect for elevating any special occasion, whether enjoying sake alone or sharing it with friends, this sake cup is also an exceptional gift for enthusiasts. It comes elegantly packaged in a chic box featuring the Yoshita Kasho logo, making it a memorable and refined present.

Yoshita Kasho

Yoshita Kasho runs a lacquer painting company in Ishikawa Prefecture, highly renowned in Japan for their tableware crafts using lacquer and innovative designs. Their products are unique and modern in their application of lacquer painting on glassware. Their designs employ glass, gold, silver and limpet shells, forever aspiring to explore unprecedented creations in lacquerware.

Yamanaka lacquerware, also known as Yamanaka Shikki, is a lacquerware produced in the Yamanaka Onsen (hot spring) district of Kaga, Ishikawa prefecture. This lacquerware is unique in that it blends the natural elegance of the wood grain with the elegant maki-e technique of sprinkling gold, silver, or other colored powder onto a lacquer painting.

With its beautiful wood texture, delicate and robust Yamanaka Lacquerware is evolving day by day, incorporating a modern sense of design while inheriting a tradition that has lasted for 400 years.