The Home of Suntory Reveals a Collector’s Version Hibiki Whisky in Collaboration With Painter Hiroshi Senju

The Home of Suntory has launched an distinctive inventive collaboration between its blended Japanese whisky, Hibiki, and painter Hiroshi Senju. This limited-edition launch celebrates the concord of Japanese craftsmanship, nature, and whisky-making, via two uncommon expressions, Hibiki 21-Yr-Previous and Hibiki 30-Yr-Previous.

Hiroshi Senju, finest recognized for his mesmerising waterfall work, has reimagined Hibiki’s presentation packing containers and labels as artistic endeavors. His new piece, Waterfall on Colours ‘Hibiki’, is impressed by Japan’s landscapes and rendered in ten shades of purple that replicate the Kokimurasaki gradient – a hue symbolising refinement and rarity. Crafted utilizing pure marble powder and water, the piece mirrors the fluidity and depth discovered inside Hibiki’s personal mixing philosophy.

The Hibiki 21-Yr-Previous options Senju’s waterfall imagery throughout each its label and packaging, embodying the whisky’s poise and layered complexity. The 30-Yr-Previous is offered as a real collector’s version, housed inside a byōbu-style display show with a reflective base and a crystal bottle wrapped in a waterfall motif. Collectively, they embody the Japanese aesthetic of Miyabi – a stability of grace, simplicity and wonder.

Senju’s works are exhibited globally, together with at London’s V&A and The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York, and he has acquired quite a few accolades such because the Honourable Point out Award on the Venice Biennale.

Hibiki 21-Yr-Previous affords a chic stability of honeycomb, sandalwood and dried apricot, completed with the incense-like heat of Mizunara oak. Hibiki 30-Yr-Previous delivers a deeper journey of brown sugar, dried fig and gingerbread, unfolding right into a lingering richness.

Each editions can be found now from Harrods’ hyperlinks beneath.

• Hibiki 21-Yr-Previous Artist Collaboration with Hiroshi Senju (purchase right here)– £750 GBP
• Hibiki 30-Yr-Previous Artist Collaboration with Hiroshi Senju (purchase right here)– £6,240 GBP