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Okinawa distiller partner with the anime tale

Japanese whisky manufacturer Kumesen Shuzo has actually simply launched its newest development. Called Ukiyo, the whisky’s name implies “floating world,” the very same ethereal geographical descriptor as in ukiyo-e, the “pictures of the floating world” woodblock prints that today function as a home window right into life in Japan throughout the pre-photograph age.

It’s not simply Ukiyo’s name that has a link to Japanese art, nevertheless, however its product packaging also, as the whisky’s label and box attribute art work from Studio Ghibli manufacturer Toshio Suzuki and anime supervisor Hayao Miyazaki.

Starting with Suzuki’s payment, the expert manufacturer has become something of a calligraphy buff in recent years, and those are his brushstrokes working as the design for the written-in-kanji-charcters Ukiyo (浮世) on the whisky’s product packaging.

▼ Suzuki, flaunting the …