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SAKE SHOP Fukumitsuya Kanazawaten
2-chōme-8-3 Ishibiki, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-0935
Junmai sake shop and brewery tracing back to a nineteenth-century pawnshop, brewing with century-filtered mountain water.
This guide to SAKE SHOP Fukumitsuya Kanazawaten traces the business back to 1625, when a merchant named Shioya Tasuke set up a pawnshop in Kanazawa and only later acquired a struggling sake brewery that came with it. You'll hear why, in 1803, the seventh-generation owner dropped his own family name for that of a hometown none of them had lived in for generations, and how the brewery relied for decades on seasonal master brewers recruited all the way from Fushimi near Kyoto. Listen for the mention of Inoue, brought in from Fushimi in 1949 to rebuild the brewery's standards.
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