Maple Leaves Maki-e Glass Guinomi Sake Cup

A captivating piece of golden glass, now beautifully embellished with the warm, autumnal hues of maple leaves on its golden base, making it particularly suitable for autumn and winter designs.

This glass guinomi sake cup, coated with transparent lacquer, boasts an uneven brushed layer that creates a lavish and varied reflection of gold, emanating from the gold leaves at the base. The hand-painted maple leaves at the bottom, safeguarded by a glass layer, allow you to appreciate its design without the worry of scratches.

The glass sake cup is delicate and lightweight with exceptional transparency, allowing the sake's texture to be beautifully showcased.

Perfect for special occasions in the colder months, whether enjoying sake alone or with guests, this exquisite sake cup is also an extraordinary gift for sake lovers, presented in a chic box adorned with the Yoshita Kasho logo.

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.