Footnotes

• Kutani Ware is one of the significant Japanese porcelain multicolored over the glaze and has been succeeded in Ishikawa prefecture where is filled elegant traditional culture. It has been fascinated not only in Japan but also by the world.
  
  Potters have developed a variety of techniques and the colours by the firing and their knowledge, which were based on the traditional aesthetic sense. Tokuda Yasokichi III is one of the most famous Kutani potter worldwide. He has handed down the traditions of Kutani, and succeeded to blend some glazed to innovate the new techniques, Yosai.
  
  As for Suntory, it has been developing the Japanese blended whiskies with their traditional techniques since 1899. "Hibiki" which is the hallmark of their whiskies has won lots of the international prizes and been recognized with the admiration worldwide as of today.
  
  "Hibiki" represents the harmony which is blended more than 30 pure single malt whiskies and the grain whiskies by the chief blender in Suntory.
  This limited edition is specially made for the Suntory's Hibiki by Tokuda Yasokichi III. It's truly sumptuous and luck for the whisky lovers. Tokuda made and designed the bottle of Yosai named "Hekiyo" for the edition. And, with great appreciations, there is purely Hibiki 35 years old for the edition.
  
  九谷燒是日本釉彩瓷器的名家，在滿是優雅傳統文化的石川縣很成功；今天，不僅是日本人，世界也為它着迷。
  
  陶瓷家基於傳統美學觀念，善用燒窯知識，開創了許多新技術與新顏色。三代德田八十吉氏是世上最享負盛名的九谷燒陶藝家之一，他把九谷燒的卓越技藝世代相傳下去，並成功研創出新的上釉技術「耀彩」。
  
  至於三得利，自1899年起一直利用其傳統技術釀製日本調和式威士忌。「響」是他們的代表作，除了贏得很多國際獎項，今天也獲舉世推崇。「響」由三得利首席調酒師以超過30種純淨的單一麥芽威士忌和及榖物威士忌混製，象徵着和諧。
  
  這款限量版由三代德田八十吉氏為三得利專製，真的華麗，能遇上是威士忌愛好者的運氣。德田八十吉氏設計並製作了這款名為「碧陽」的耀彩瓶， 值得好好鑑賞之餘，所盛載的響35年也是獨一無二。