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NIIZAWA KIZASHI
Junmai Daiginjo

We launched this premium sake in 2015 in collaboration with contemporary artists.
Since its inception we have been honored to work with different Japanese contemporary artists each year.
When rice is highly polished, it becomes extremely difficult to cultivate koji, which makes it difficult to extract the umami derived from koji, but with KIZASHI, we succeeded in extracting 1.5 times the umami than Zankyo Super 7 which also has a 7% rice polishing ration.
We brew KIZASHI so its proportion of residual sugar falls in between that of NIIZAWA and Zankyo Super 7.
This will age beautifully when stored in a refrigerator.
It is a precious sake and we only brew 1000 bottles per year.
Each year we collaborate with a different artist, therefore the label differs each year.

[Awards]
【GOLD】Japan Women’s SAKE Award 2024 Rich & delicious category
【GOLD】Oriental Sake Awards 2024 Junmai Daiginjo/Junmai Ginjo category (Light & Clean), “NIIZAWA KIZASHI 2019 Junmai Daiginjo”
【Gold Medal】Kura Master 2024 Old Sake Category, “NIIZAWA KIZASHI 2021”
【TROPHY(1st)】【GOLD】International Wine Challenge 2024 Aged Sake Category “NIIZAWA KIZASHI 2019”
【GOLD】International Wine Challenge 2024 Junmai Daiginjo Category “NIIZAWA KIZASHI 2021”
【GOLD】International Wine Challenge 2024 Junmai Daiginjo Category “NIIZAWA KIZASHI 2023”
【GOLD】Councours Mondial des Féminalise 2024 Junmai Daiginjo Sake Category,“NIIZAWA KIZASHI 2023”
【SILVER】Singapore Sake Challenge 2023,“NIIZAWA KIZASHI 2021”
【SILVER】Singapore Sake Challenge 2023,“NIIZAWA KIZASHI 2022”
【GOLD】U.S. National Sake Appraisal
【TROPHY】【GOLD】International Wine Challenge 2023 Junmai Daiginjo Category

Polishing Ratio 7%
SMV ±0
Acid 1.4
Amino Acid 1.4
ABV 16%
Rice Kuranohana
Capacity 720ml
Storage temperature -5°C to 5°C

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AKI INOMATA
《Give “Yado” to the Hermit Crab -White Chapel- Iseyama St.Grace Cathedral》, 2014-2015

AKI INOMATA

Born in Tokyo in 1983. In 2008, he completed the Department of Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts. Works created with living things, such as “Give “Yado” to the Hermit Crab,” in which a hermit crab continues to move into a transparent hermitage shaped like cities around the world. Published many times.
Major exhibitions in recent years include 2022-2023 “Roppongi Crossing 2022 Exhibition: Orai Alright!” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), 2022 “Aichi 2022” (Aichi), 2020-2021 “Broken Nature” (Modern Art Museum, New York: MoMA), 2019 “AKI INOMATA: Significant Otherness: When Living Things Meet” (Towada Art Center, Aomori), 2019 “22nd Triennale Milano” (Triennale Design Museum, Milan), “Toronto Biennale” (Toronto, Canada), 2018 “Thailand Biennale 2018” (Krabi, Thailand), etc.
The main collections of his works include the Modern Art Museum, New York: MoMA, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art.

Art Work

Yasuhiro Suzuki
Fastener Ship, 2004/2018

Yasuhiro Suzuki

He was born in 1979 in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture and graduated from Tokyo Zokei University.
He continues to create artwork that reconsiders familiar things and casual natural phenomena, and discovers new relationships between things that are not normally connected. Some examples of his work are: a video installation work using the park’s play equipment “Globe Jungle” (Perspective of Play Equipment 2001); paper leaves with open and closed eyes drawn onto them, blinking as they fall into the space (Blinking Leaves 2003). He creates works that evoke memories and re-present the subtleties of things that we are usually unaware of from a fresh perspective, such as “Zipper Ship” (2004), which opens the sea with the wake of a ship. Some major solo exhibitions include: “Earth in the Neighborhood” at Art Tower Mito in 2014;
Hakone Open Air Museum “Garden of Beginnings” in 2010. Some major international exhibitions include: Seville Biennale 2008, Setouchi Triennale 2010, and the 4th Moscow Biennale, and he represented Japan at the 1st London Design Biennale 2010. In 2021, his first solo exhibition at an overseas museum, “BLINKING,” was held at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Israel.

Art Work

Omiya Ellie
Fortune Flowers, 2017

Omiya Ellie

While working in various genres as a writer, stage director, drama/film director, and video production producer, she was suddenly asked to work at Soichiro Fukutake’s Montblanc International Prize award ceremony held at the Tokyo National Museum in 2012. She started her career as a painter through live painting. In 2016, she held her first solo exhibition at a museum, “Sincerely Yours” (Towada City Museum of Contemporary Art).
“Lounging Around” (Gallery Brachia) was held in Hong Kong, Milan, and Paris in 2019, and in London in 2022. She has also created murals at children’s libraries in Amami Oshima. As an exhibiting artist at the Setouchi Triennale 2022, she presented her three-dimensional work “Flower Fairy Dancers” on Inujima.

Art Work

Mai Miyake
Easter, 2010
Mixed media

Kei Miyama

Adding her unique perspective to the delicacy and depth of traditional Japanese arts and crafts, Miyake seamlessly links the past, present, and future, while continuing to question the essence of things and the universality of expression. Miyake’s timeless works, which are both innovative and nostalgic, are highly acclaimed for their consistent and gentle style, which shake the viewer’s preconceived values and work on the viewer’s subconscious. Major exhibitions include “Transforming House” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2018), “BOTANICA” at Busan Museum of Art (2018), “Beyond Time: Standard of Beauty” at ICOM / Nijo Castle World Heritage 25th Anniversary (2019), and many others. Miyake has been involved in a wide range of activities, including the curation of “SHISEIDO THE STORE Window Gallery” in 2018-20, “Cross Frontier: Selected Exhibitions” at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2020, and the Saitama International Art Festival 2020. Professor at Kyoto University of Arts.

Art Work

Enrico Isamu Oyama
FFIGURATI #315, 2020

Enrico Isamu Oyama

Artist. Oyama has attracted attention in the field of contemporary art for his expression that crosses media, revisiting the “Quick Turn Structure” motif, itself a reinterpretation of the visuals of spray painting.Born in Tokyo in 1983 to an Italian father and Japanese mother. Oyama was invited to the United States by the Asian Cultural Council in 2011, and has been based in New York since 2012. He has held solo exhibitions at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London; Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Kansas; Pola Museum of Art, Hakone; Nakamura Keith Haring Museum, Yamanashi; and Tower 49 Gallery, New York. Recent publications include “The True Face of Street Art: New York Writing Culture” (Seidosha) and “Art on the Street: From Twombly to Banksy” (Kodansha Sensho Metier).

Art Work

Haruka Kojin
Reflectwo, 2006

Haruka Kojin

Born in Hiroshima in 1983, Kojin received her MFA in 2009 from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Advanced Art and Design. She has developed installation works in which “different spaces” intuitively extracted from everyday scenes are reconstructed as phenomena in exhibition spaces such as museums. Her works have been exhibited in Japan and abroad at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo, and the Centre Mestres Pompidou, among others. In 2013, Kojin formed the contemporary art activity team “Me (eyes)”. Activities as “Me [eyes]” include “Tayorinai genjitsu, kono sekai no arika” (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo), “Uncle’s Face in the Sky” (Utsunomiya Museum of Art Outside the Museum Project), and “Okusoku no Seiritsu” (Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, 2018), winning the 28th Takashimaya Cultural Foundation Award.

Art Work

Aiko Miyanaga
Untitled (Clock), 2009
Napthalene, Mixed Media

Aiko Miyanaga

Born in 1974 in Kyoto, Japan, Miyanaga received her MFA in 2008 from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Advanced Art and Design. Miyanaga has attracted attention for her works that visualize time using traces of signs, such as naphthalene objects made of everyday items and installations using salt, leaf veins, and the sound of ceramic piercing. 2013: Winner of the first Grand Prix of the “Nissan Art Award. Major solo exhibitions include “life” at Mizuma Art Gallery (Tokyo, 2018), “Michikake no torukima” at Ohara Museum of Art Arininso (Okayama, 2017), and “Aiko Miyanaga: Nakasora – Aerial Sky” at The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2012). Major future plans include participation in “Setouchi International Art Festival 2019.

Art Work

Kumi Machida
Michiyuki, 2015

Kumi Machida

Born 1970 in Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. graduated from Tama Art University in 1994 with a degree in Japanese Painting, and began solo exhibitions at Nishimura Gallery in Tokyo in 2005.
In 2008-2009, Machida stayed in Denmark under the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists. In the same year, she had solo exhibitions at Kestner Gesellschaft (Germany) and Takasaki Tower Museum of Art (Japan). In addition, she has had numerous exhibitions in Japan and abroad.
Recent exhibitions include “Kumi Machida – Japanske Streger -” (Kulturhaus Kappelborg, Denmark) in 2017, “Japanorama” (Centre Pompidou, Metz, France), “Doraemon Exhibition” ( Mori Arts Center Gallery). In 2012, “Kumi Machida Art Collection” (Seigensha) was published.

Art Work

Takahiro Iwasaki
Reflection Model, 2001
Cypress, linden veneer, wire

Takahiro Iwasaki

Born in Hiroshima in 1975 and currently lives in Hiroshima. Ph.D. in Art Studies, Hiroshima City University.
Completed graduate studies at Edinburgh College of Art.
In 2015, Iwasaki had a solo exhibition at Asia Society, New York, and in the same year, he had solo exhibitions at Kurobe City Art Museum and Oyama City Kurumaya Museum of Art.
International exhibitions include the 10th Biennale de Lyon (2009), Yokohama Triennale (2011), 7th Asia Pacific Triennale (2012), 2013 Asian Art Biennale (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts), 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2014), “Roppongi Crossing 2007: Pulse of the Future” (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2007), “Happiness in Everyday Life” (Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, 2008), “trans×form: Beyond Form” (International Art Center Aomori, Aomori, 2013), “Nissan Art Award 2015” (BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, 2015) and many other group exhibitions.

Art Work

Tetsuro Kano
Untitled Drawing

Tetsuro Kano

Born 1980 in Miyagi Prefecture. After graduating from Tokyo Zokei University in 2005 with a BFA in Environmental Design / Urban Environment Course, Kano received his MFA in painting in 2007 from the same university’s Graduate School of Art and Design. Recent solo exhibitions include “Naturplan” (2011, Bloomberg Pavilion Project, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), “Protean wood” (2012, YUKA TSURUNO, Tokyo), “Abstract maps, Concrete territories. Abstract maps, Concrete territories” (2013, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo), “Paintings or Sculptures” (2014, YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo).