Choku 猪口
Choku can be also pronounced as "choko" in Japanese. It is a kind of mukozuke which is a small deep bowl to be used to serve side dish along with a bowl of rice in Japanese traditional meal.
Sobachoku そば猪口
Soba choku also soba choko is a small cup which can be used to serve dipping soup to eat with soba noodle. Soba is a type of noodle made of buckwheat flour.
Sometsuke rinpo pattern sobachoku - late 18th century
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This sobachoku is hand painted in under glazed blue decorated with rinpo pattern aound the rim. The center motif of the cup is known as gobenka. The bottom of the cup has a center glazed circle area surrounded by unglazed ring pattern known as "janome kodai" which can be translated to a foot rim shaped like fish-eye design : janome literally means snake's eye in Japanese .