Take-an - sake glass to enjoy the taste and aroma of sake

What we can do to continue the culture of Japanese food and sake

"Takean" has been loved by everyone in Ginza for a long time.

Due to the coronavirus, due to the closure and closure of restaurants one after another

The culture of enjoying Japanese food and sake is fading.

What can we do in this? While asking myself,

I want everyone to enjoy the deliciousness of sake wherever they are.

This time, I decided to start crowdfunding.

Thoughts on concept and development

It was five years ago that I made this glass.

Originally interested in sake sets, while researching at seminars and self-education,

(1) The way you feel the mouth and aroma of sake, wine, etc. varies greatly depending on the shape, material, thickness of the mouth, etc.

(2) The best sake set for sake is "tin", which has high thermal conductivity, and in addition to the quick cooling of the mouth, it also has a water purification effect.

➂ Wine glasses are in the limelight as sake glasses, especially when you want to taste the aroma.

Actually, based on the above three items, when I launched the third store, "Kuzushi Kappou Tempura Takean" five years ago, I sought to make a tin wine glass, but the start-up cost was enormous. I gave up because there was a high possibility that I couldn't do it technically.

However, if you purchase two types of wine glasses and tin scents that specialize in fragrance at the store and have customers who have visited the store for the past five years drink the glasses separately, the difference in taste, the mouth, and the scent Many customers were impressed and pleased with the difference, and we continued to research glass.

And this is the ultimate sake glass! I decided to make a glass because I was convinced.

Commitment to the glass

(1) I searched for a workshop that could realize the ideal shape, and met Mr. Hashimoto Kinzoku from Tsubame Sanjo City, Niigata. It is now possible to create shapes that refer to wine and liquor glasses, which are easy to raise the aroma with metal, which was difficult five years ago.

* By making two R curves with S-shaped sides, the structure is finished to enhance the scent.

(2) Instead of tin, which is soft and difficult to process, we chose copper as the main material, which also has high thermal conductivity, at the suggestion of Mr. Kobo. As a result, we succeeded in reducing the weight of the glass and achieving the thinness (0.7 mm) of a high-class wine glass at the mouth.

➂ By coating tin on the inside with the advice of Mr. Hashimoto Metal, the purifying effect peculiar to tin is also secured.

④ In order to enhance the design, we asked calligrapher and artist AI KISHIMOTO to put in the logo.

The created scenery is posted on Instagram from the following URL. Please take a look at Instagram because she is a very nice woman.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNzxkKTA-IE/

By combining the above, the ultimate comfort (thinness 0.7 mm & cooling effect by thermal conductivity), the ultimate scent (designed to make it easier to raise the scent by making the side S-shaped), the ultimate design 1 Collected in one glass.

I am confident that we have made the best glass in Japan.

Reaction of tasting

Actually, people around me are tasting it now, and everyone is pleased with the aroma of sake and the coldness of the glass.

Maximize the taste of sake at home or in a restaurant

In 2021, it is said that the "house-only tendency" is becoming stronger due to the request to refrain from eating out.

Those who are actually interested in sake, and those in their 50s, have recorded a high percentage of those who enjoy sake at home more than two days a week, at 75% or more.

Now that such home-drinking is the mainstream, you can enjoy the original taste of unique sake with each characteristic in Japan.

I think that is the mission of this glass.

Encounter leading up to creation

In addition, we could not reach the completion without the cooperation of many people in making this glass.

I would like to introduce two people who especially cooperated in making the glass.

Originally, Tsubamesanjo City has been a craftsman's town for a long time, and it is an area where the production of cutlery, hardware and Western food season is thriving, and now it has the highest level of manufacturing technology in the world as "Manufacturing Town Tsubamesanjo". It is an area where companies and craftsmen are gathering.

Among them, this time, to Mr. Hashimoto Metal

I asked him to make tin and copper choko with reference to the shape of the wine glass, which I thought was impossible five years ago.

When making this glass, it was still difficult to make this shape with metal, and there was a danger that it might not be possible to make it in the middle.

I asked them to try it over and over again by hand to make the current glass.

It is a carefully selected glass made by hand by a craftsman who inherited the tradition at MADE IN JAPAN.

For more information about Mr. Hashimoto Metal, please see the URL below.

https://www.hashikin.com/

Process to completion

First step: Shape creation

All the work is basically handmade by craftsmen, but since it is necessary to first make a drawing of the product image from the start-up concept stage, 3D measurement is performed using a digital measuring machine using the latest equipment and complicated shapes are drawn into the figure. It took more than a day to create.

Second step: Completion of the mold

We prepared the necessary tools (mold) based on the drawings, and tried many times with a prototype mold because of the shape that was unprecedented in the past.

In the process, even with the experience of a skilled craftsman, it is often not possible to make the product as shown in the drawing.

Among them, the most difficult point was the curved part of the side. Since this depends on the feeling transmitted to the craftsman's hand, vibration and the amount of force, it will break if the material becomes thin due to the amount of force while deforming and adjusting the shape while stretching the material. ..

Even if you are a craftsman, every time you make a new product, it will be a task to remind yourself of a new feeling.

Another point I was conscious of was the thinness of the mouth, and I focused on maintaining an appropriate thinness in consideration of the mouthfeel.

Third process: Finishing, surface treatment, polishing work

With the image of a finished product, we perform surface treatment while assuming how much work and polishing should be performed to complete the product.

If you neglect this step, it is an important part that will be affected at the time of completion.

Final process: Komi dyeing

It is a color that utilizes the unique chemical changes of copper materials.

Unlike spraying paint, it is a processing method in which copper and liquid react with each other by immersing them in a certain liquid, and the color is dyed.

Since it is a manual work that dyes differently depending on the time and temperature, each has a slightly different look.

Also, because it is dyed, unlike painting, there is no worry that the paint will accidentally come off and enter the human body.

This time, we will put the bamboo hermitage logo on the glass.

Aizumi Kishimoto created this logo.

Mr. Kishimoto uses his brush and heart to create an expression that fuses tradition and innovation.

An artist who is active worldwide, such as an interview featured by an art and entertainment magazine in New York.

After having Mr. Kishimoto actually visit the Takean main store and have a meal,

When I asked for the logo to be created, I was happy to accept it.

For more information about Mr. Kishimoto, please see the URL below.

https://aikishimoto.com/category/media/

Comments from sake brewers

The high-class color and thin mouth convey the taste of sake straight.
For ganki sake, I would like to add Junmai Daiginjo's Motacilla to enjoy it.
The shape that makes it easy to pick up the scent and the feeling of temperature that can be transmitted to the hand are also good.

Luxury design.
Despite this material, I was surprised at the thinness of the mouth.
The feeling of temperature of sake transmitted to the finger proves the good heat conduction and is wonderful.
If you pour Kamo Kinshu, "special pure rice".
From chilled liquor to liquor with a temperature close to room temperature, you can feel even more delicious.

Takean Founder: Koji Asahina

nice to meet you. My name is Asahina and I have been involved in a wide range of food and drink for over 30 years, from kaiseki kaiseki to family restaurants, all-you-can-eat, dining, and Japanese kaiseki.

Ginza was in a very difficult situation in this corona disaster, and it is still in that situation.

I wanted to launch a new business to overcome this situation.

The profit of a company is to work to contribute to society and to make a profit from that activity. When I thought about what I could do this time, I had to remake the glass, which I couldn't do when the Tempura Takean was opened five years ago.

The concept of sake glass has been around for a long time, and as mentioned above, I was convinced that the best product could be made if the customer could do it as ideal with the tin inoguchi and the wine glass after 3 years of verification.

I met Mr. Hashimoto Metal there. At first, it seemed like a ugly man, but he began to ask me if he was able to convey his enthusiasm, and at the end, a wonderful work was completed.

Mr. Kishimoto, who asked for the logo design, was able to put in a design that was well received by female staff and Instagram followers due to a chance encounter on Instagram.

I am grateful that these encounters have created a synergistic effect this time. It's a tough situation, but I really think that the connection with people made this glass.

This sake glass is a work that the craftsmen of "Tsubamesanjo", the best metal processing town in Japan, collided with all the theories that can be considered from the experience of my restaurant site for more than 30 years. Produced from the perspective of a professional in the field of eating and drinking, who has always listened to the opinions of consumers, not from the creators, sake breweries, or customers, and wondered how to get them to drink deliciously. We are proud that it is a very rare glass.

As a side effect, it was also found that cold tea, juice, rock of shochu, beer, etc. are also effective for drinks that enjoy the aroma and the coldness of the mouth. Not only for drinking at home, but also because it doesn't break, I hope it will be widely used as a gift for marriage.

Product specifications

・ The diameter of the mouthpiece is about 71 mm (about 1 mm by handmade processing)

・ Height 100 mm

・ Lower bulge 90mm

・ Contents 430cc when full

・ Weight 120g

・ Material Pure copper

-Product inner surface tin-plated finish

・ Appearance antique finish clear paint

・ Laser marking with name

【store information】

Store name: Ginza Takenoan 5-chome Main Store

Store address: 4th floor, West Fifth Avenue Building, 5-6-13 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Store phone number: 03-5537-0388

Business hours: 11: 30-15: 00, 17: 30-22: 30

* Subject to change due to time saving request, etc.

Regular holiday: Sunday (3 consecutive holidays is the last day)