Since early times in Japan, sake bottles and sake cups have been used on various seasonal or special occasions such as wedding ceremonies and Shinto rituals, and those important utensils have been nurtured as Japanese culture as well as tableware items for drinking sake. We incorporated those traditional and popular items into the new international trend of Japanese sake hoping that you will enjoy drinking sake a lot more during meals and at dinner time. That is the theme of the "Komasuji Hyotan" Bottle and Cup series. The shape represents a bottle gourd, which is known as a traditional design. It looks adorable or funny somehow; you could describe it by using various adjectives. Blue comes across as refreshing, and Bottle in blue is recommendable for serving Soba dipping sauce as well as for pouring sake into a cup. Red in a bottle gourd shape is considered to be very auspicious, so it will be very useful for New Year's and celebration meals. It appears that the blue or red lines hand painted by an artisan have shades of color, which will probably make you feel artisan's subtleties in every single painting process.