Komasuji hyotan sake pitcher blue
Description
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.
Features
Microwave Safe
A microwave oven heats or cooks food very quickly using short electromagnetic waves, namely, microwaves. In most cases, the microwaves heat the water content of the food. However, in some cases, the microwaves concentrate on the carbonized (burnt) parts of the food, causing the temperature to rise higher than the other parts. For example, the microwaves concentrated on the carbonized (burnt) parts of stir-fried vegetables can create a large temperature difference in /on the tableware item, which may cause breakage. In addition to water content, oil content is also heated. The oil has a higher boiling point than the water, so it heats up at a higher temperature, creating a very large temperature difference between the parts that contain oil and the parts that do not, which can cause breakage.
・Never soak hot tableware in water or place it on the cold kitchen counter. Avoid rapidly heating frozen foods or putting [the cold tableware just taken out of the refrigerator] in the microwave. A rapid change in temperature will lead to “crazing” (chaps) or breakage.
※The products with gold or silver paintings, or applied with particular glazes are not microwave safe. We put a “Do Not Microwave” sticker on those items, so please confirm it.
※Accessories etc., made of other materials are excluded from microwave safe items.
Not Oven Safe
Dishwasher Safe
As for the products without the "Not Dishwasher Safe" stickers, please make sure to use them keeping the below matters in mind.
※If tableware items collide each other in the dishwasher, they will get broken.
※Most ceramic items absorb water. Even if the surface looks dry, there may still be some water in the tableware, which may cause your tableware to get moldy or smelly. So, please take it out of the dishwasher immediately after use, and dry thoroughly in a place where it can be exposed to the outside air.
made in JAPAN
※絵柄は手描きのため、一つひとつの太さや間隔、濃淡が異なる場合があります。※徳利の容量は満水で約1合（180ml）入りますが、多少の誤差が生じます。
