28 years at Suntory. Father of the Highball. Founder of SAKAZUKI. Still searching for Japan’s Hidden Gems—and the people behind them. 🥃
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Hi(ball)! 🥃
I get asked this a lot:
“So what exactly is SAKAZUKI?”
So here’s SAKAZUKI in 3 pages. 😁
For people who already love Japan — and want to go deeper. 🇯🇵
This is SAKAZUKI. ↓
Morning matcha with us? 🍵🌵
See you tomorrow at 9 at The Adobe Room!
Come say hi 😁
Shared Tea Time at The Adobe Room with @SakazukiNFT presented by The Bearded Travelers
Tomorrow 9AM
Meet artists @JimenaBuenaVida and @mae_1031_ , connect with the people behind SAKAZUKI, and discover some of Japans Hidden Gems.
Open Luma sign up below ⬇️
Highball Charlie retweeted
Shared Tea Time at The Adobe Room with @SakazukiNFT presented by The Bearded Travelers
Tomorrow 9AM
Meet artists @JimenaBuenaVida and @mae_1031_ , connect with the people behind SAKAZUKI, and discover some of Japans Hidden Gems.
Open Luma sign up below ⬇️
Highball Charlie retweeted
So excited to be part of this! 🤠💙
Huge thanks to @aventurine_eth for bringing us together in Marfa!
We’re hosting a Shared Tea Time at The Adobe Room on Oct 23 — Japanese tea, handcrafted knives, and a few Hidden Gems from Japan.
Open to everyone. Come say Hi(ball)! 🍵🥃
The Bearded Travelers website is live!
beardedtravelers.art
Six main exhibits and seventy-four independent artists from around the globe light up The Adobe Room at the Lumberyard in Marfa, TX for @artblocks_io Marfa Weekend Oct 23-24th 2026.
SAKAZUKI family, who’s up for the challenge? 😁💙
Big thanks to Makoto for making this happen!
Check our Telegram group or your email for how to join💪
Let’s have some fun together! 🥃
Something new for the SAKAZUKI family! 💙
Together with @Makoto_kizen, one of our Hidden Gems collaborators, we’re launching the SAKAZUKI × KIZEN 10-Day Challenge — exclusively for SAKAZUKI members!
Experience it. Share your story. Pass it forward.
That’s what SAKAZUKI is all about. 🥃
Hi(ball)! What a BYOS session today! 🥃
Four amazing collaborators. Four different worlds.
Aoki Hamono, Kenichi Natural Farm, KIZEN & Kume T-shirt.
And we’re just getting started. 😁
Thank you, everyone! ❤️
Highball Charlie retweeted
The Bearded Travelers website is live!
beardedtravelers.art
Six main exhibits and seventy-four independent artists from around the globe light up The Adobe Room at the Lumberyard in Marfa, TX for @artblocks_io Marfa Weekend Oct 23-24th 2026.
SAKAZUKI is joining Tokyo Jazz Club🥃!
Big thanks to @NORIWTS for making this happen 🙌
Who’s coming?
Tokyo Jazz Club is almost there✈
Great lineup and happy to have @tomokihara @ENN @kevinabosch & Ryota Kuwakubo in the lineup
@SakazukiNFT joining as a partner which is supported by @glimmerdao
For more info: tokyojazzclub.jp/exhibitors-…
Hi(ball)! Yesterday, Kaito from Kenichi Natural Farm. 🍵
Today, meet Kai-san from KUME, a Japanese T-shirt maker and one of our Hidden Gems Collaborators! 👕
Tomorrow, we’re giving our SAKAZUKI members a first look at what we’ve been working on together.
BYOS004. Almost here! 🥃
Highball Charlie retweeted
Shared Tea Time at The Adobe Room with @SakazukiNFT presented by The Bearded Travelers
ft Artists @JimenaBuenaVida and @mae_1031_
Friday Oct 23rd from 9-10am
luma.com/7khwnkd3
Highball Charlie retweeted
Luma registration links for all the main gallery exhibition events at "The Adobe Room" at the Lumberyard for @artblocks_io Marfa Weekend are now live!
See the thread below and start signing up ⬇️
Hi(ball)! Meet Kaito from Kenichi Natural Farm in Nara. 🍵
One of our Hidden Gems Collaborators — and now part of the SAKAZUKI family!
This Friday, we’re giving our members a first look at some of the things we’ve been working on together.
BYOS004. Bring Your Own Sakazuki. 🥃
More Hidden Gems. More People. Together.
Hi(ball)! This fit is UNREAL! 😳👕
Trying on our first SAKAZUKI T-shirt prototype at Kume Textile with Kai-san.
Can’t believe how good it feels!
Hi(ball) Back at the restaurant where we had our ZANSHIN final dinner😁
Why? It’s Yasue-san’s birthday today! 🎂❤️
Happy Birthday, Yasue-san! 🥃
Highball Charlie retweeted
I visited an exhibition at NEORT. While its theme was auto-destruction, the use of space was highly creative. In fact, the gallery itself feels like a system built on cycles of destruction and renewal.
Exhibition
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An Exhibition of Auto-Destructive Art
自己破壊芸術展
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0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef
"Entropy" (2021)
Every transfer degrades the work, though nothing is actually lost
0xFFF @0xShiroi
"Diminishing Returns" (2026)
Thirty-two contracts. Every transfer wears down the connection it uses
Zeroichi Arakawa @arandoros
"assumevalid" (2026)
"upgradeTo(Leviathan)" (2026)
A blockchain that verifies nothing, and a hundred citizens switched one by one into a single body
Jonah Brucker-Cohen @coinop29
"Alerting Infrastructure!" (2003)
Visits to a website become damage to the building that website represents
exonemo @exonemo
"Hatch/et" (2026)
"断末魔ウス" (2007)
A computer guessing a passcode, and a mouse that cannot be restored
Akihiro Kubota @hemokosa
"Collapsed Constellations" (2026)
"Poesia Povera" (2026)
Measuring a qubit consumes it, and that consumption is the computation
Toshi @toshiaki_takase
"@toshiaki_takase: Room" (2026)
His actual X account, open for anyone to delete from
🗓️ Oct 2 - 18 | 14:00 - 19:00
📍 NEORT++
two.neort.io/exhibitions/aut…
I’ve worn the same watch for 15 years.
Then I met the people who made it.
This one is personal. 🥃😁
It still looks white.
What happens when you meet the people behind a Japanese watch?
You start seeing more than a watch.
SAKAZUKI Journal 011 is out.
sakazukijournal.substack.com…