Hirota Heritage Glass Soy Sauce Dispenser — Tortoiseshell
Hirota Glass has been making glass in Tokyo since 1899, more than a hundred and twenty-five years of continuous work. Their original design archive dates back to the founding, and this dispenser is one of the forms reissued from it.
The bottle’s hexagonal silhouette is the traditional kikkō (tortoiseshell) motif, long associated with longevity in Japanese design, carried in the shape of the glass itself.
The two things that matter most on a soy sauce dispenser are the pour and the cleanup. This one gets both right. The ground-glass stopper’s lip catches stray drops and returns them to the body, so nothing lands on the tablecloth. The build is glass only, two pieces held closed by the ground-glass fit itself. No plastic, no rubber, no screws. Nothing to gunk up, nothing to work around when it's time to wash.
Its natural use is soy sauce, but the same shape holds olive oil, balsamic vinegar, or lemon juice just as well.
- Ground-glass stopper. The lip returns stray drops to the body, so it doesn't leave sticky rings on the table
- Two glass parts only. No plastic, no rubber, no screws. Easy to take apart, easy to clean
- Hexagonal silhouette, the traditional kikkō (tortoiseshell) motif carried in the shape of the glass
- Suits any small-pour condiment: soy sauce, olive oil, balsamic, lemon juice, vinegar
- Kodai-iro (the color of Japan's classical era), a very subtle amber warmth traditional to Hirota
- Hirota's swallow mark pressed subtly into the top of the stopper
A small object made to last. From a maker made to last.
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