Sake Ritual

A full Aderia Tsugaru Vidro set — three hand-finished glass guinomi (sake cups) and a matching 365ml tokkuri (pitcher). Tsugaru Vidro is the speckled, slightly cloudy glassmaking style from Aomori prefecture in northern Japan; each piece is hand-blown, so no two cups in the set are perfectly identical.

The three cup designs are named for natural scenes — Unkai (Sea of Clouds), Yamawakaba (mountain fresh-leaves green), and Haru no Yoru (Spring Night). They're sized for traditional warm or chilled sake servings (about 60ml per cup), which is smaller than wine pours by design — sake is sipped, not gulped. The tokkuri holds enough for about three rounds across the set.

This is gift-grade glassware. Each cup ships in its own gift box from Aderia; if you split the set across two households (one couple, one bottle of sake to share over a phone call), the boxes hold up to that.