sake

The leather-faced old sots tossed their long reddish-grey locks in the air, and pirouetted round the big saké jar.

Even the little infants guzzled quantities of the yellow saké from the shallow cups of very thin red-lacquered wood.

The liquid refreshments consisted of sweet and clear saké (rice beer) tea, and cherry-blossom water.

On returning to my former kneeling-place one of the priests offered me saké and a small piece of dried fish in paper.

I found that there were 23 registered geisha, no joro, 50 teahouse girls with dubious characters and 55 sellers of saké.