Japanese rice wine cup or sake cup

1968 - Rice wine cup worth a fortune: Despite the business slump in Japan resulting from the dollar-shock, and surcharges on imports from Japan, a Tokyo department store is offering this king-size sake cup (rice wine cup) made with 7.013 kgs of gold, to the first customer to put down 10 million yen ( 11, 500) on the counter. The big sake cup, 30 cms in diameter, took two months to fashion. It is an enlarged version of the minute sake cups generally made of china. (Credit Image: (c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)

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1380 19600105 Cups Customer Despite Diameter Enlarged Generally Imports Minute Resulting Sake Slump Worth

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