Pair of tin tumbler Berg in wooden gift box

At a glance

- Osaka Naniwa Suzuki (大阪浪華錫器), METI-designated traditional craft
- By Osaka Suzuki, led by Tatsumasa Imai, nationally recognised Contemporary Master Craftsman (2012)
- Hand-hammered tsuiki finish inside and out; sold as a pair in a wooden gift box
- 6.6cm wide, 9cm tall; suits sake, beer or cold drinks

Pour chilled sake into a tin tumbler and it cools in seconds, not the glass, the whole drink. Tin conducts cold the way cast iron holds warmth: completely, and immediately.

The Berg tumbler is made by Osaka Suzuki (大阪錫器) in the Osaka Naniwa Suzuki (大阪浪華錫器) tradition, a METI-designated craft accounting for roughly 70% of all tinware made in Japan. The company traces its origins to Edo-period tinsmiths and today is led by Tatsumasa Imai, a nationally recognised Contemporary Master Craftsman (現代の名工, certified 2012). Each tumbler is cast from molten tin, turned on a hand-operated lathe to thin the walls, then hammered by hand to create the tsuiki (鎚目) surface: fine, irregular marks visible on both the interior and exterior that give the piece a quietly tactile quality and a surface that catches light differently from every angle. Tin is traditionally said to mellow sake and soften water, a quality that has made tinware a staple of Japanese drinking culture for centuries.

Sold as a pair in a wooden gift box. Ready to give exactly as they come.