The beautiful moment when droplets fall during sake brewing (tobin-tori) is captured in the form of the design.

The design captures the beautiful moment when droplets fall during sake brewing (tobin-tori).
The true delight of this product lies in imagining the moment freshly fermented sake drips, allowing you to savor Japanese sake more deeply.You can pour sake until it overflows from the cup onto the saucer, as is often done with masu cups. The cup and saucer are detachable. Lifting the cup portion in this state actually recreates the dripping of sake. In fact, this ease of separation also conceals craftsmanship backed by precision machining technology.

There is no other sake cup in the world that is made up of convex and concave parts that fit together like this.

This joint was made possible by the technical expertise Nakagawa Precision Mashinery Works has built up over 100 years.

We focused on the thinness of the rim in order to achieve the ultimate way of drinking sake. After repeated trial and error, we arrived at a thickness of 0.9 mm.

To achieve all of this, Nakagawa Precision's long-cultivated thin-wall lathe processing technology, which shaves metal into a round shape and thins it, was essential for completion.

As part of the Japanese government’s hospitality at the G7 Osaka-Sakai Trade Ministers’ Meeting held in Osaka and Sakai on October 28-29, 2023, our shitatari was adopted as a gift for the ministers of the participating countries.
Since the meeting was held in Osaka and Sakai this time, the inscription on the back of the sake cup read “Made in Osaka Japan” to show our commitment to manufacturing in Osaka.

We also wrapped the sake cup in a newly created furoshiki cloth and handed it out.

We also printed “Made in Osaka Japan,” which we value, under the brand logo on the wrapping cloth.

We also created a story and concept sheet in English and enclosed it with the package.

The beautiful moment when droplets fall during sake brewing (tobin-tori) is captured in the form of the design.

The design captures the beautiful moment when droplets fall during sake brewing (tobin-tori).
The true delight of this product lies in imagining the moment freshly fermented sake drips, allowing you to savor Japanese sake more deeply.You can pour sake until it overflows from the cup onto the saucer, as is often done with masu cups. The cup and saucer are detachable. Lifting the cup portion in this state actually recreates the dripping of sake. In fact, this ease of separation also conceals craftsmanship backed by precision machining technology.

There is no other sake cup in the world that is made up of convex and concave parts that fit together like this.

This joint was made possible by the technical expertise Nakagawa Precision Mashinery Works has built up over 100 years.

We focused on the thinness of the rim in order to achieve the ultimate way of drinking sake. After repeated trial and error, we arrived at a thickness of 0.9 mm.

To achieve all of this, Nakagawa Precision's long-cultivated thin-wall lathe processing technology, which shaves metal into a round shape and thins it, was essential for completion.