soba cup（Sobachoko)
A container for buckwheat noodle soup. It is said that the inverted trapezoidal shape reminds one of the “mouth of a wild boar,” hence the name. The soba inokuchi was made from Imariyaki porcelain, the first domestic porcelain produced in Japan, in the early Edo period (1603-1868). At that time, it was used by the upper class as a vessel for eating soba, not as a vessel to hold soba dipping sauce, but as soba became popular in the late Edo period (1603-1868), it spread to the townspeople, and popularized versions were made.
