Object 01 / The measure
One gō,
exactly.
Every pour at Kurahashi is measured in a hinoki masu cut from the brewery’s own cedar: 66 mm square inside, 45 mm deep, with a single burned line at 41.3 mm where 180 ml of sake comes to rest.
The masu
A box is the most honest cup.
- 01180.39 ml
The gō is a meal
One gō is the old measure of a single person’s rice for a single meal. It is still the size of a single pour, and the reason the box is the size it is.
- 029 mm hinoki
Joined without glue
Cut from the cedar stand above the kura and box-jointed dry. Cedar swells when it is wet, so the masu closes its own seams on the first pour.
- 0341.3 mm
One burned line
The only mark inside the box. Pour past it and the sake runs over into the saucer: mokkiri, the host’s way of saying the measure was generous.
This season · Brewing year 2026
Three sakes, three ways to pour.
| Sake | Polish | SMV | Serve | Tasting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ina MizuJunmai Ginjō | 55 % | +3 | 12 °C · masu | Pear skin, rice steam, a dry snap at the finish. |
| KisekiJunmai Daiginjō | 40 % | +1 | 10 °C · glass | Melon and white flower. Too delicate for cedar, so it is poured into glass. |
| YukimuroKimoto Junmai | 70 % | +5 | 45 °C · masu | Rested a winter in the snow room. Mushroom, toasted grain, best warm. |
Taste it in the kura.
Thursday to Sunday, 10:00–16:00. Four pours from the tank, one masu to take home with your initials burned beside the line.
Book a tasting · ¥2,400