Horn cup - Kakuhai

Japanese: 角杯 - かくはい

A cup made from an animal horn. Later, animal heads were made from pottery, bronze, and silver. In ancient Greece, a drinking cup made from timber was called a rhyton. In Persia, from about 1000 BCE to the Sassanid dynasty, golden rhytons were also made. Ivory and bronze rhytons have been excavated from the Yin Ruins in China, and rhytons were used in the future along with the import of Western culture during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and can be found in stone carvings from that time and in the decorations of the Shosoin treasures.

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Japanese:

獣角でつくった杯。のち陶器，青銅，銀などで動物の頭を模したものがつくられた。古代ギリシアでは角材を模した飲酒用の杯をリュトンとよんだ。ペルシアでは前1000年ころからササン朝にかけて黄金製のものもつくられた。中国では殷墟(いんきょ)から象牙や青銅製のものが出土しているほか，隋・唐時代に西方文化の輸入とともに将来し，当時の石彫や正倉院宝物の装飾の中に角杯がみられる。

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