111 Years of Craft ???? - Video

This video captures Tachibana Yoki, a Japanese company with over a century of history, hand-building a traditional wooden sushi tub known as a hangiri (also called an oke). The clip shows the core assembly process: individual wooden staves are packed edge to edge around a round steel form, with the final stave cut as a precise wedge that locks the circle together. A metal hoop is then driven onto the assembled ring, and once the steel form is removed, the wooden structure holds its shape entirely on its own.

Notably, no screws or glue are used in this construction. The joint pressure created by the tightly fitted staves, combined with the compression from the metal hoop, is what holds the tub together — the same fundamental principle used in traditional barrel-making (cooperage), simply adapted to a shallower vessel. Over time, the wood also absorbs a small amount of moisture, which helps keep the joints tight.

A hangiri serves a specific purpose in sushi preparation: it's used to mix hot cooked rice with vinegar and cool it evenly. Unlike a plastic bowl, the wood in a hangiri absorbs excess moisture from the rice, helping prevent it from becoming soggy — a small but meaningful detail in traditional sushi-making. Tachibana Yoki continues to produce these tubs and other wooden vessels using the same time-tested cooperage techniques passed down through generations.

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