A bowl is held in one's hand in such a way that the thumb of the left hand is raised to catch a brim of the bowl and the remaining four fingers of the left hand are stretched flatly to support the bowl's 'itozoko' (a raised circular rim at the bottom of a bowl).
椀の持ち方は、左手の指を平たく伸ばし、親指を起こして椀の縁に引っ掛け、残りの四本が底のところにある「糸底」（底の円周状に突起している部分）をのせるようにして持つ。