【Kissing Mokkiri Sake Vol.036】

When drinking at Izakaya (informal Japanese style bar) in Japan, sometimes sake is served in this style: server put a glass inside the Masu or sake saucer and pour until sake overflows from the glass. This serving style is called “Mokkiri” and it is said that the degree of overflowing shows the degree of the server’s generosity.
How would you drink this style of sake?
The most familiar style in sake country Akita is that sipping a bit of sake with kissing the brim. In order to spread this “kissing drinking style” throughout the world, we will continuously introduce the attractive “Mokkiri face” of beautiful Akita’s ladies to you.

This mokkiri beauty is Ms. Kazuha Toshima who is an Akita representative of Miss Sake 2017: the ambassador who transmits the attraction of sake and Japanese culture both within and outside Japan. She won the special prize at the final selection.
“While I live and be working at a company in Tokyo, I am glad to have a connection with my hometown like this. I will do my best during a year of my term”.
Please spread the big attraction of Akita’s local sake all over the world!