Labels
There have been various labels used since the founding of the company. Our company name, "Hakutsuru", means a white crane in English. So many figured of cranes have been used. In Japan the crane is the symbol of happiness and long life. Due to the name, our company's Sake is very often uesd for gifts and festive celebrations.
Tools on Display
Ledger for Sake Brewing Tool Expenses
During the time of Jihei Nagayoshi, a second generation lumber dealer, the shogunate had a policy of promoting sake brewing after the end of the Kyoho era, and so in a fitting move, the lumber dealer was transformed into the Edozumi Sake Brewery. Jihei Nagayoshi inherited the family estate in 1730. This was when he was 34 years old. In 1743, when he was 47, he switched to the sake brewing industry. According to the "Ledger for Sake Brewery Construction & Sake Brewing Tool Expenses", first, in April 1743, he bought Tanaka Shin'emon's old storehouse in Nishinomiya with a single piece of silver, and including the cost of repairs and purchase of sake brewing tools, he spent 7 kan, 258 monme to move it to Mikage Village (now Mikage Honmachi 2-chome) as the maekura. His stock of sake at the time was 1 koku, 6 to, 6 sho, 6 go. Three years later in 1746, he also purchased Tosha Gorobei's storehouse (75 tsubo) and Chiashi Rihei's old storehouse (27.5 tsubo) for 3 kan, 250 monme, and following the maekura, made the kitagura. As for sake brewing stock, he received "5 koku of brewing stock, 1697 " from Sakuemon of the same village. The maekura and kitagura were the warehouses in operation during lumber dealer Jihei's founding period.