Sake-in-a-cup is sold all over Japan, with the workaday Ozeki One Cup, which debuted in 1964 (the year that Tokyo hosted the Olympics and commercial operations of the bullet train began), still ...

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Once the paint is flowing, fill in the design on the sake cups. 3. Allow the paint to dry for 24 hours, then place in an oven heated to 300 degrees and bake for 35 minutes.

During the sake brewing process, drops of sake trickle down from the mash one by one, spreading ripples on the surface of the container beneath it. Such was the inspiration for a one-of-a-kind sake ...

One reason why the ochoko, or sake cup, is so small is that you are supposed to notice when another person's cup is low and refill it for them. It's very much a caretaking gesture.

Sake is often toasted, known as “kanpai,” roughly translating to “drink your cup dry,” SAKETIMES says. Sake cups are called ochoko, and sake pitchers are called tokkuri.