At the time of establishment, sake was delivered to the customers by bicycles. Because the roads were unpaved at that time, sake bottles often cracked. For this reason, each sake bottle was wrapped by rice straw to prevent cracking.

In old days, every brewery used wooden tanks called “kioke” for sake production. Sake got absorbed by the wooden tanks little by little and became gradually less. This is a scene of drying tanks in the shade in the summer to prevent mold growth.

We used to wash each bottle by hand using a brush. We now use a machine, however, when the stain does not come off, we still use brushes to remove the stain.

This is the first car of the brewery. It is a Toyota car. The type of the vehicle is unknown. Although Toyota cars today do not break easily, it used to break quite often in old days. Cleaning of the carburetor was particularly a hard work.

It’s Mid-Showa period. In these days, wooden tanks were replaced by vitreous enamel tanks. As there were no packings, stones were placed on wooden lids as weights. These tanks are still doing a great job today.