Hirota Heritage Glass Soy Sauce Dispenser — Cherry Blossom
Hirota Glass sits at a specific meeting point. European glassmaking arrived in Japan in the late nineteenth century, and Hirota, founded in Tokyo in 1899, was one of the workshops where that new craft blended with Japanese design into something distinct. This dispenser is a reissue from Hirota's historical archive, a form born of that meeting.
The bottle’s four-lobed base is the sakura (cherry blossom) motif, carried in the shape of the glass itself. In Japanese design, sakura is long associated with the arrival of spring and with mono no aware, the quiet beauty of things that pass.
Some designs survive because they solve a problem quietly and well. This one is one of them. The ground-glass stopper catches stray drops on its lip and returns them to the body, so soy sauce doesn't run down the outside. The whole vessel is two pieces of glass. No rubber, no plastic, no screws to work around at the sink.
Meant for soy sauce, but the shape happily takes olive oil, balsamic vinegar, or lemon juice.
- 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
- Four-lobed base, the sakura (cherry blossom) 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 for the meals worth being present for.
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