Tanabeya Gohei XII obtained sole distribution rights from Kobe trading company H. Ahrens & Co. for salicylic acid manufactured by German drug company Chemische Fabrik von Heyden. He named this product “Hinode Tsurukame Jirushi sarichiru-san (Rising Sun, Crane, and Tortoise Mark salicylic acid)” and began to sell it to sake brewers as a sake preservative. Note the crane depicted in the middle section, followed by the tortoise and rising sun.