

Japanese Porcelain Sake Set
Vintage Japanese Porcelain Okame Sake Cup (Guinomi) entitled: “Much Good Fortune”
Age:1980s
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Dimensions: 1-0”d x2-1/4” L
This wonderfully expressive porcelain sake cup, (cups used for drinking sake which are small cylindrical vessels called o-choko). This unused piece is based on Otafuku, (Okame), who remains one of Japan's least analyzed yet beguiling figures. Here the artist captured her spirit by showing merry and expressive eyes, a definitive nose, tiny red mouth nugget to convey robust health, and earthy simplicity, and greets each new situation with laughter and bright-heartedness. Her delineated face shows chin wrinkles indicating the doll represents a worldly woman, who always showed two circular dots on her forehead, with a Buddhist hairstyle reminiscent of the type when the hair was draped down the back of the head. The piece has an impressed makers mark on the bottom.
Condition: Excellent for its age with very good detailing, no fading or chipping, and commensurate with age. New at the time and Unused.