Our overlander truck raced to the Sossusvlei park gate to make the sunrise open. This morning’s goal - to walk Namibia’s Dune 45 and witness the play of sun and shadows over the awe-inspriring red sand dunes at daybreak. In our hurry we stopped, jumping out to capture this equally breathtaking moment.
Left: At the Terada Honke sake brewery, workers spread steamed rice to cool. Right: Rice blooms with koji spores.
Photographs by Ko Sasaki
Left: At Akishika Shuzō, Oku Hiroaki specializes in sake made with rice that he grows himself organically across 50 acres. Right: At Mukai Shuzō, a worker prepares koji.
Photographs by Ko Sasaki
Left: Toji Kuniko Mukai. Right: Heirloom red rice.
Photographs by Ko Sasaki
Left: Some tools of the trade. Right: Toji Oku Hirokai is the sixth generation of brewers in his family.
Photographs by Ko Sasaki
Left: Toji Masaru Terada. Right: A pair of geta (traditional Japanese wooden slippers) rests near a vat of fermenting sake.
Photographs by Kai Sasaki
Toji Masaru Terada grows his own rice for the junmai-shu sake he makes using natural fermentation.
Photograph by Ko Sasaki
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Our overlander truck raced to the Sossusvlei park gate to make the sunrise open. This morning’s goal - to walk Namibia’s Dune 45 and witness the play of sun and shadows over the awe-inspriring red sand dunes at daybreak. In our hurry we stopped, jumping out to capture this equally breathtaking moment.
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