Sake set
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A sake set consists of the flask and cups used to serve sake. Sake sets are most often in Japanese pottery, but may be wood, lacquered wood, glass or plastic. The flask and cups may be sold individual
Sake can be served in a wide variety of cups; here is a sakazuki (flat saucer-like cup), ochoko (small cylindrical cup), and masu (wooden box cup).
Kiriko (切子, cut glass) tokkuri and ochoko
Three traditional sake cup shapes
A decorated lacquer masu
Masu (measurement)
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A masu was originally a square wooden box used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period. In 1885 Japan signed the Convention du Mètre and in 1886 converted all of its traditional measures to
Sake set
…銚釐) or tanpo (湯婆). Recently, glass chirori are also used to chill sake. Formerly, sake was sold by volume in a wooden box measuring cup, known as a masu which has a volume of one gō (180 ml, 6.3 imp fl oz, 6.1 US fl oz) and was also used to drink. In the past, the wooden box was said to complement the…
1-Shō masu, a wooden box. (10 times volume of 1-gō masu)
1-gō masu, a wooden box used for measuring portions of rice or sake