soy sauce dish ”醤油皿”

醤油皿 "shôyu-zara" are small round ceramic plates for serving soy-sauce. Typically used in Japan to accompany sushi.

This high-quality Arita ceramic ware has an indentation of a cute cat or sea creature at the bottom which emerge the form of the character when pouring seasoning liquids sauce as soy sauce or olive oil.
 
Add a little flair and complete your Japanese table setting with these modern ceramic dishes!! 

♦ Fun with soy sauce!

Just fill any watery sauce in the dish like soy sauce, vinegar or olive oil, a lovely cat will appears with its typical postures such as "stretching at wake up" (neoki 　寝起き), "looking back" (furimuku　ふりむく), "curling up" (marukunaru　まるくなる), "sitting" (suwaru　座る), "playing" (korogasu　転がす) and "waiting" (matsu　待つ).

         *wake up cat            *looking back cat               *curl up cat                    *sitting cat                     *playing cat                  *waiting cat

* When the dishes are filled with a liquid, the image of a cat is formed.

♦ 6 different cat's postures and 6 kinds of fish

* CATS                                                                                        *FISH