Please consider purchasing this item if you understand that it is a used product. It was used for approximately 10 years during the New Year's holiday to actually serve otoso (a type of sake). There are small scratches and areas where the paint has chipped off in places. Possible uses include: Practice for the san-san-kudo ceremony in Shinto weddings, decorations for shops, props for photography or stage performances, etc. The footed tray for the otoso set can also be used as a very cute feeding stand for cats and dogs! When drinking otoso, the entire family faces east. It is poured from the right side of the person drinking, and the order of drinking proceeds from the youngest to the oldest. This is said to mean that the elders absorb the vitality of the young, and it is also a remnant of the practice of tasting for poison. Originally, it is drunk in three stages using three stacked cups, but in a simplified version, it is poured into one cup three times and drunk in three sips. People in their unlucky year drink last to receive the power to ward off evil from those not in their unlucky year. When drinking, one chants, "If one drinks this, the family will have no suffering; if the family drinks this, there will be no illness for a mile." As there is no original box, it will be protected with cushioning material from home and shipped. Takkyubin 80-100 size Otoso set, toso-ki (otoso set), New Year's, pine, bamboo, plum, crane, New Year, event, early spring, traditional ceremony, lacquerware, the first three days of the New Year, celebration, vermilion-lacquered sake bottle, three-tiered sake cups, sake bottle, tokkuri (sake flask), three-piece cup set, toso-dai (otoso tray), Buddhist wedding, Shinto wedding, san-san-kudo cups, ceremony of the betrothal cups