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The same cup suits tea, coffee, or a quiet drink at the end of the day, carrying the traditional beauty of Arita-yaki painting throughout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kousyuhai-cup-large-fossil-fish-black","title":"KOUSYUHAI Cup (Large), Fossil Fish (Black)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt a glance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Arita-yaki (有田焼), Saga Prefecture; by Kihara (キハラ), Arita\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Curved interior concentrates fragrance; developed with Kyushu distillers for shochu\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Large (300ml); fossil fish motif; dishwasher and microwave safe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cup designed around the senses fragrance first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe KOUSYUHAI was developed in collaboration between Kihara's Arita kiln network and Kyushu distillers to solve a specific problem: conventional tumblers allow aromatic compounds to escape before they reach the nose. The KOUSYUHAI's distinctive inwardly curved interior creates a column of captured air that concentrates fragrance a design principle borrowed from whisky nosing glasses, made permanent in Arita porcelain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe coelacanth design a prehistoric fish rendered in deep gosu black by a skilled Arita craftsman is one of the most visually striking in the range. The coelacanth, a living fossil that has existed largely unchanged for 400 million years, carries a quiet poetry for a cup designed to honour things that endure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt approximately 300ml with a gentle rim taper, this cup works beautifully for whisky on the rocks, shochu, sake at room temperature, or simply good green tea on a quiet evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in Arita, Saga Prefecture. 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No two cups are tonally identical. The glaze has been used in Japanese ceramics for over three centuries; here it is applied to the KOUSYUHAI form, whose curved interior concentrates the fragrance of whatever is poured into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor whisky, shochu, or a cold gin the deep green of the cup makes the colour of the spirit visible in a way that plain glass or white ceramic cannot. For sake or green tea, the mineral character of the glaze offers a quietly beautiful contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn object worth having on the table whether it is full or empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in Arita, Saga Prefecture. 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Not a print, not a pattern: a surface made by applying pigment in a bubble-like technique that creates a speckled, nebula-like depth across the matte body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Kousyuhai (香酒盃) is Kihara's Arita-yaki cup designed around the ritual of slow, attentive drinking: an inwardly curved interior that concentrates fragrance upward as you raise the cup, a narrowed rim that holds the aroma rather than releasing it, and a form developed with Kyushu distillers for shochu and whisky. At 300ml it suits a rock pour of fine spirits, green tea, or coffee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cosmos surface on this cup is created with 泡状の絵の具 (bubble-like overglaze pigment), applied after the main firing and fixed in a second lower-temperature kiln. The blast finishing (ブラスト加工) gives the body a characteristically matte texture that absorbs light rather than reflecting it, deepening the cosmic, fantastical character. 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It is the landscape you find in every great Japanese ink painting, lacquerware, and porcelain from the Edo period. Here it is rendered as a sometsuke (blue-and-white underglaze) illustration that wraps the full body of the KOUSYUHAI. The seemingly random brush strokes are actually the Kanji character of Hana-cho-fugetsu, 花-鳥-風-月.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe painting is done by hand in the classical gosu tradition, meaning the blue carries the characteristic slight blur and tonal variation of mineral pigment that printed blue-and-white cannot achieve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor whisky, sake, shochu, or green tea the KOUSYUHAI's curved interior concentrates fragrance before it reaches the nose. A cup that makes the last drink of the evening feel like a proper ending.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in Arita, Saga Prefecture. 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