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Reference-grounded editorial illustration of a whole horizontal coopered wooden cask resting on wooden chocks, showing its convex staves, hoops, end head and bunghole.
Equipment

Coopered barrel, cask and large wooden vat

Coopered vessels use shaped staves and hoops, but portable barrels, large foeders and upright wooden vats serve different roles. Materials and uses vary by place and process.

Barrels and casks
Jerez de la Frontera
Illustration of a large coopered wooden miso vat topped with a pyramid of river stones in a storehouse.
Equipment

Hatcho miso stone-weighted kioke

A coopered wooden kioke used by Kakukyu in Okazaki for Hatcho miso: a broad vat capped with a carefully stacked pyramid of river stones during maturation lasting more than two years.

Barrels and casks
Hatcho-cho, Okazaki