Designer creates a new "gravity seal" for iconic Kikkoman soy sauce bottle

Japanese industrial designer and former Buddhist monk Kenji Ekuan (1929-2015) designed the iconic Kikkoman soy sauce bottle in 1961. His bottle is so beautiful that MOMA considers it a work of art and has it in its collection:

The bottle had to fit in with the minimalist Japanese aesthetic and be comfortable to hold goals he achieved by designing a wide-bottomed bottle that tapers at the neck and ever so slightly funnels out at the very top.