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How to pour sake – the polite way in which to pour sake.

Sake is getting very popular even outside of Japan now.
We introduce the manners how to pour or how to get poured.



There are two points how to pour sake.
At first, you should pour sake from the opposite side of the mouth of Tokkuri (sake bottle). This is the rule only for pouring sake with Tokkuri. 
The dent of the circle is “En no kireme” in Japanese and it means the rift of relation.
 
 

Secondly the amount you pour sake is eight-tenths full at maximum.
If you fulfill the sake cup, it makes people hard to drink with the cup.
So pour sake by eight-tenths full of the sake cup like the image.