Antique Japanese Ceramic Sake Bottle Kayoi-Tokkuri Gray Kanji Omuraya TS854 Other Vases [Inside] 11

[Inside] 11

[Tassel] 16 cm long

Nagano Prefecture

Tugarunuri design with abalone shell inlay

and Shinto shrine gate in a glass cuboid

Antique Japanese Ceramic Sake Bottle Kayoi-Tokkuri Gray Kanji Omuraya TS854 Other Vases [Inside] 11Antique Japanese Pottery Sake Bottle Kayoi Tokkuri This is an antique Japanese ceramic sake bottle. It is called a Kayoi Tokkuri and is used to pour sake. The commuting sake bottle became popular as a rental container for liquor stores in the Edo period when sake began to be consumed daily. This gray bottle has brown characters. Gray, brown Ceramic C1900 Some characters: Omuraya liquor shop name, 120 (might be a block number of the shop or the bottle