Calendar
【koyomi】
10 months of experiences that put you in tune
with the cultural and natural features behind sake
旅するように、地域文化を探究する。
Online classes featuring local artisans, cultural figures, and relevant artists who cultivate their area’s cultural and natural features will be provided once per month, so that you can count the months while monitoring the rice plants’ growth. While the course consists primarily of online activities, some in-person options are offered as well. We intend to continuously prepare activities such as tours of workshops and areas that are not normally accessible to the public.
Spring
The season when the water warms up and
rice gets planted is a prelude to the story of sake
Summer
During the Obon festival, the sound of prayers
resonates across vibrant green rice paddies
Fall
The products of golden, gleaming rice stalks,
each of these grains becomes sake’s lifeblood
Winter
Yeast bubbling as it breathes in
the crisp chill of the morning air

Travel starter kit
The kit for understanding Japan through sake is filled with exclusive items elaborately crafted just for “Saku.” Please use the kit however you like. For example, you might keep the towel in hand for the rice-planting experience. If you use the notebook to record your daily discoveries like you would in a journal, it may serve as a record of realizations and growth for yourself and those you love.

Experiences you can participate in either online or in person
Philosophy, art, religion, natural sciences... Through these original “Saku” experiences, you’ll encounter the local culture behind sake and discover the essence of Japan. While following along in real time the entire process from rice-planting to the sake's completion, you’ll explore local culture.

Others will be learning and traveling with you throughout the year
riends and colleagues are an indispensable part of visiting a place for the first time and learning new things. That's even truer when the finest sake is involved. “Saku” will bring together colleagues who will be learning and traveling together, both online and in person. We encourage you to join us, and enjoy a meaningful time together with colleagues brimming with curiosity and aspiration.

Sake you name yourself, delivered from the hometown of sake, Hyogo prefecture's Harima area
You’ll receive a total of eight bottles of sake divided into two shipments, one in spring and one in autumn, from Hyogo prefecture's Harima area, called the “hometown of sake.” After this sake arrives -- still nameless -- the moment when you look back over your 10 experiences and give it a name is a special experience in and of itself. Your own sake, the only one of its kind in the world.