When drinking at Izakaya (informal Japanese style bar) in Japan, sometimes sake is served in this style: server put a glass inside the Masu or sake saucer and pour until sake overflows from the glass. This serving style is called “Mokkiri” and it is said that the degree of overflowing shows the degree of the server’s generosity. How would you drink this style of sake? The most familiar style in sake country Akita is that sipping a bit of sake with kissing the brim. In order to spread this “kissing drinking style” throughout the world, we will continuously introduce the attractive “Mokkiri face” of beautiful Akita’s ladies to you. This […]

Takashimizu history began in 1944 after merging of 12 small breweries during World War II. In this column, we will trace the history of 12 breweries which are the foundation of current Takashimizu one by one. We will introduce “Shobutsuru” and “Wakatono” today as the fifth breweries out of 12. Shinnosuke Hiroshima started the sake business under the brand name “Shobutsuru” and in later years, he also used “Wakatono”, too. “Shobutsuru” was named after the title of Emperor’s New Year’s Poetry Party in 1900, “Shojo no Tsuru”. After that, this poem became the koto (Japanese harp) music. This song was about “the crane that resides in the pine tree which […]

When drinking at Izakaya (informal Japanese style bar) in Japan, sometimes sake is served in this style: server put a glass inside the Masu or sake saucer and pour until sake overflows from the glass. This serving style is called “Mokkiri” and it is said that the degree of overflowing shows the degree of the server’s generosity. How would you drink this style of sake? The most familiar style in sake country Akita is that sipping a bit of sake with kissing the brim. In order to spread this “kissing drinking style” throughout the world, we will continuously introduce the attractive “Mokkiri face” of beautiful Akita’s ladies to you. This […]

The second Toji was Riichiro Nagasawa, who came from San-nai area in Yokote city same as the first Toji Tsuruta. Nagasawa entered Takashimizu as a seasonal worker in 1952 when the amount of sake brewing in Akita prefecture was recorded the best in the postwar. In that year, Akita’s sake was so inundated with orders that the breweries were unable to meet even half of demands from all over the country, and the traders outside Akita intruded on sake breweries in Akita and they scrambled for sake. Nagasawa started training of brewing sake, so to speak, in the golden period of Takashimizu and Akita’s sake industry. He had worked as […]

When drinking at Izakaya (informal Japanese style bar) in Japan, sometimes sake is served in this style: server put a glass inside the Masu or sake saucer and pour until sake overflows from the glass. This serving style is called “Mokkiri” and it is said that the degree of overflowing shows the degree of the server’s generosity. How would you drink this  style of sake? The most familiar style in sake country Akita is that sipping a bit of sake with kissing the brim. In order to spread this “kissing drinking style” throughout the world, we will continuously introduce the attractive “Mokkiri face” of beautiful Akita’s ladies to you. This Mokkiri beauty is Ms. […]

When drinking at Izakaya (informal Japanese style bar) in Japan, sometimes sake is served in this style: server put a glass inside the Masu or sake saucer and pour until sake overflows from the glass. This serving style is called “Mokkiri” and it is said that the degree of overflowing shows the degree of the server’s generosity. How would you drink this style of sake? The most familiar style in sake country Akita is that sipping a bit of sake with kissing the brim. In order to spread this “kissing drinking style” throughout the world, we will continuously introduce the attractive “Mokkiri face” of beautiful Akita’s ladies to you. This […]

Takashimizu history began in 1944 after merging of 12 small breweries during World War II. In this column, we will trace the history of 12 breweries which are the foundation of current Takashimizu one by one. We will introduce “Oyadama” this time as the fourth brewery out of 12. It was the Meiji era. Oyadama started its sake business in 1871 at the current Oomachi, Akita city. Originally, the family had dealt with daily necessaries business such as tea, paper, sugar, and so on, but they set up a new branch family. When the creation of a new branch family, from the head family, they had taken over the land, […]

When drinking at Izakaya (informal Japanese style bar) in Japan, sometimes sake is served in this style: server put a glass inside the Masu or sake saucer and pour until sake overflows from the glass. This serving style is called “Mokkiri” and it is said that the degree of overflowing shows the degree of the server’s generosity. How would you drink this style of sake? The most familiar style in sake country Akita is that sipping a bit of sake with kissing the brim. In order to spread this “kissing drinking style” throughout the world, we will continuously introduce the attractive “Mokkiri face” of beautiful Akita’s ladies to you. This […]

Do you know what kind of works “Toji” does? Toji is the leader of brewers and the chief person responsible for entire fields. Not only sake brewing technique but also the control, management, and judgement ability are required and well-balanced combination of the affection for sake and the ability of commanding the organization are also necessary for him. In this column, we introduce our successive Toji who has supported the quality of Takashimizu sake one by one. Momoji Tsuruta had worked as the first Toji for 30 years since the time of foundation of our company in 1944. He was born in 1899 in the current San-nai area of Yokote-city. […]

When drinking at Izakaya (informal Japanese style bar) in Japan, sometimes sake is served in this style: server put a glass inside the Masu or sake saucer and pour until sake overflows from the glass. This serving style is called “Mokkiri” and it is said that the degree of overflowing shows the degree of the server’s generosity. How would you drink this style of sake? The most familiar style in sake country Akita is that sipping a bit of sake with kissing the brim. In order to spread this “kissing drinking style” throughout the world, we will continuously introduce the attractive “Mokkiri face” of beautiful Akita’s ladies to you. This […]