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Hand-painted illustration of a huge upright cedar kioke filled with dark moromi in a timber soy-sauce brewery.
Equipment

Shoyu kioke

A shoyu kioke is a very large upright wooden vat for fermenting and ageing soy-sauce mash; Japanese sources document cedar-stave examples held together by hoops.

Barrels and casks
Japan
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