京都一家老牌日式餐厅Shimogamosaryo销售的“kona -shoyu”是一种新型的粉状酱油调味料，与液体酱油不同，它不影响食物成分，因此有助于油炸食品保持其脆度。
以前的容器都是小嘴，不仅无法预估用量，而且还有一个问题，就是酱油有可能一次全流出来出来，不能完全适应酱油的“升级”。
在设计一个新的容器时，灵感来自于茶道上使用的传统勺子和寺庙里使用的水桶。当你在丘苏沙清洗自己的时候，不要直接把手伸进水里，而是先用水桶打水，然后用桶里的水。新容器的口部分是碗形的，带有盖子，使用户可以检查每次使用的kona-shoyu的用量。另外，只要翻转手腕，就可以把酱油均匀地撒在食物上。
碗的背面略微变平，便于放置，使碗口成为一个“漏斗”，方便了kona-shoyu的灌装过程。一个装满konna -shoyu的袋子在碗里，只要把把手向你倾斜就可以倒进容器里。碗的大小和颈部截面的倾斜度都是经过反复的测试的，这样在确定数量之前不会有kona-shoyu溢出来，而留在碗里的kona-shoyu可以顺利的回到容器里。
“Kona-shoyu,” sold by Shimogamosaryo – an established Japanese-style restaurant in Kyoto – is a new type of powdered (=kona) soy sauce(=shoyu) seasoning which, in contrast to liquid soy sauce, does not dampen food ingredients and consequently helps deep-fried dishes maintain their crispness.
Previous containers have small mouths and not only was it difficult to gage the quantity, but there was also an issue that the kona-shoyu could spout all at once, and were not fully adapting to the “evolution” of soy sauce.
For designing a new container, ideas were taken from traditional ladles used in tea ceremonies and water pails used at chozusha, which is a water ablution pavilion at shrines. When cleansing oneself at the chozusha, you do not put your hand directly into the water, but first draw water with the water pail and then use the water from it. The mouth section of the new container was bowl-shaped with a lid, and enabled the user to check the quantity of the kona-shoyu per usage. Also by just turning over the wrist, the shoyu can be sprinkled on to the food evenly.
The back of the bowl was slightly flattened so it can be easily laid down, enabling the mouth of the bowl to act as a “funnel” facilitating the process of refilling the kona-shoyu. One bag-full of kona-shoyu in the bowl will pour into the container by simply tilting the handle towards you. The size of the bowl and the slant of the neck section was reached after repeated verification, so that the kona-shoyu will not gush out before the quantity was confirmed, and the kona-shoyu left in the bowl can go back smoothly into the container.
Design: Nendo
Collaborator : nrs, nsz
Photographer : Akihiro Yoshida