SAKURA（桜）

Cherry blossom, the beauty of the falling moment. One-of-a-kind specimen art, hand-painted on a Hercules beetle, with a Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

COA Included

Series: Four Seasons
Title: SAKURA（桜）
Certificate: Certificate of Authenticity
Medium: Hercules beetle specimen × hand-painted art
Provenance: Farm-raised, natural lifespan only

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Certificate of AuthenticitySAKURA（桜）

Title: SAKURA（桜）
Series: Four Seasons
Issued by: HERCULES LABO Co., Ltd.
Verification: This product page shows the serial and COA status. (Serial-input verification will be added in v2.)
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Proof of Authenticity

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Certificate, engraved serial, wax seal, dedicated case — everything that upholds a one-of-a-kind work, delivered alongside it.

A blank washi certificate ruled only with a fine gold border (illustrative)

CertificateCOA bearing artist, date & specimen data

A hallmark punch poised over a brass plate (illustrative)

Serial & SealEngraved serial, with our hallmark in wax on certificate & case

A wooden case lined with charcoal suede (illustrative)

Dedicated CaseIts opening sealed in wax — made to be displayed as is

Images shown are illustrative. Photography of the actual COA and case is in preparation — details on inquiry.

The Story

SAKURA opens the Four Seasons. The cherry blossom — the flower Japan loves most — is a study in transience; here that fleeting beauty is set upon the back of one of the longest-growing beetles on earth. Its hard, lacquer-like elytra become a pale-rose canvas, each petal shaded by hand, the moment of scattering caught with a thread of gold.

Bloom, fall, return — the cycle the cherry teaches is mirrored in a beetle that has lived out its full span. To keep something fleeting in a form that will not decay: that is the wish carried in this piece.

We never kill for art. We use only beetles that were farm-raised and lived out their natural span. Honoured, they are given a second life as art — carrying the culture of Hercules to the next generation.

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We never kill for art.