Hibiki's new Japanese Harmony limited edition hands its 24-faceted bottle to Chiso, a Kyoto kimono house founded in 1555, which covers the glass in jewel-toned florals drawn with the same yuzen silk-dyeing it uses on kimono. It reached US shelves on October 1, 2026. Read through the color, this is a dyeing craft asked to survive as print on glass. Yuzen builds its flowers in soft gradients, one petal bleeding warm to cool, edges held by fine gold lines, and that is a look tuned for silk that takes dye and light a certain way. Moving it onto a clear, faceted bottle changes the rules. The art now sits on curved glass with amber whisky glowing behind it, so a crimson has to stay a true crimson over that warm backlight instead of sliding orange, the blush tones have to stay visible instead of washing out, and the fine gold outlines have to land cleanly where the facets break the surface into angled planes. Each of the 24 faces catches light differently, so a motif that crosses an edge has to register across two planes without the pattern jumping.
The House of Suntory launched the Hibiki Japanese Harmony 2026 Limited-Edition, Chiso Collaboration on October 1, 2026. The 43% ABV blended Japanese whisky is available beginning that date across key global markets including the US, at a suggested price between $135 and $150. It is a collaboration with Chiso, a Kyoto kimono house founded in 1555, which designed the bottle artwork.
The edition keeps Hibiki's signature 24-faceted bottle and gives the surface to Chiso's yuzen silk-dyeing, the hand-dye craft the house has practiced for close to 470 years. The glass carries a band of seasonal flowers, tachibana citrus, kiri paulownia, sakura, ume and tsubaki camellia, in gold, crimson, emerald, indigo and blush. That artwork has to print cleanly on curved, faceted glass and hold its color with amber whisky glowing behind it.
A production-real comp puts the full floral artwork on the actual bottle before a run, so a team can confirm the gold outlines stay crisp where the facets break the surface, the crimson and blush tones hold their color over the backlit amber whisky, and the five flower types read as one continuous design around the glass.
Sources: The House of Suntory, BevNET. Product image: The House of Suntory.
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