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The title is Guinomi (ぐい呑).

This is a sake cup created by Mori Teisai.

・Japanese Guinomi (sake cup)
A type of cups mainly used for drinking Japanese sake.
Generally it's a larger sized sake cup than Japanese sakazuki, Japanese ochoko and others.
It's said that guinomi can hold twice as much Japanese sake as an ochoko.

Being characterized by a deep base and a wide mouth,
that's why there are many ways of use including sauce, beans, olives and
appetizer bowls, houseplant vase and others.

Actually, pouring sake from a bottle called "tokkuri" and
having the flask with one's hands, and then sipping sake from a "guinomi".

Perfect for enjoying the aroma of alcohol and temperature changes.

Volume : about 80 ml

We see the burnt design that's made by contrast between the goma pattern and the uncolored place.

The goma pattern is that it looks like the color by sprinkled sesame seeds produced by burning split pine wood in the kiln.

And uncolored place could be made depending on where it put in the kiln. There are some parts which fallen ash is less likely to attach, and then that's become a scene of lost color.