Description

Pouring a drink will make the Great Wave become even more ferocious, creating a dynamic scene within the glass. The glass is made using a layer of lapis blue glass flashed over a light blue base. While flashed glass is common among Edo kiriko, this glass features the custom-made one.

Lead-time: 1 months
Size: W 70 mm (maximum) x H 60 mm
Capacity: 115 ml
Pattern: Hokusai, The Great Wave
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Innovative, Kaleidoscopic Edo Kiriko
A guinomi (sake cup), its base engraved with a pattern of cherry blossoms, ten flat cuts on its sides. Filled with sake, the glass blooms with cherry blossoms as the pattern reflects up the sides, drawing you into a beautiful self-contained world of liquid light, rippled with the light blue of the cup’s base and vibrant kin’aka pink of the cherry blossom motif.

The Sakura Saku, or “blooming cherry blossom,” guinomi is one of many popular items from glass specialty store Shiina Kiriko (GLASS-LAB), established in 2014 by Shiina Takayuki. The family business, Shiina Glass, was founded by his grandfather in Kiyosumi Shirakawa in 1950 as a cut-glass processing factory. His father, second-generation Shiina Yasuo, is a master of hirakiri, or flat faceting, one of traditional techniques of Edo Kiriko. This method of creating flat facets in glass is more technically challenging than simply cutting lines in glass; currently, there are only about ten artisans practiced in the technique. Additionally, Takayuki’s brother, Shiina Yasuyuki, is a specialist in sandblasting. By spraying abrasive materials onto the glass surface, he is able to engrave intricate frosted-glass patterns such as cherry blossom motifs, and with extraordinary skill and dexterity draw ultra-fine lines as thin as 0.09 mm.

A workshop that combines these two techniques is extremely rare, and Shiina Kiriko (GLASS-LAB) was started with the desire to couple them to create unique Edo Kiriko. Suna Kiriko, which employs sandblasted engravings on the base and beautiful, reflective hirakiri faceting on the sides, was the innovative product of their joint efforts. When filled with liquid, the delicate sandblasted patterns spread through the glass and its contents in a kaleidoscope of light and color. Besides cherry blossoms, Shiina Kiriko (GLASS-LAB) also offers guinomi and old-fashioned glasses with motifs reflecting the changing seasons, such as fireworks, autumn leaves, and snowflakes. Glasses featuring motifs from famous ukiyo-e prints, such as Red Fuji and The Great Wave from Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, have also found widespread popularity overseas.


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