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Taue (Rice Planting): Planting Yamada Nishiki in Rural Kyoto Prefecture for Next Year’s Sake

Posted in Japanese culture, sake, sake brewery (酒蔵), shinise on May 24th, 2008

Taue (Rice Planting): Planting Yamada Nishiki in Rural Kyoto Prefecture for Next Year’s Sake

Taue (田植) means rice planting, or properly, rice transplanting as seedlings are first grown in a protected area such as a greenhouse and then transplanted to the rice paddy. Kitagawa Honke Sake Brewery (Learning to Make Sake series) contracts with rice farmers [...]

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Sake: Learning to Make Sake at Kitagawa Honke Sake Brewery in Fushimi - Part 3

Posted in Fushimi ward (伏見区), sake, sake brewery (酒蔵), series, shinise on Feb 13th, 2008

Sake: Learning to Make Sake at Kitagawa Honke Sake Brewery in Fushimi - Part 3

I went back to the Kitagawa Honke sake brewery to check-up on the progress of lot no. 18.

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Sake: Learning to Make Sake at Kitagawa Honke Sake Brewery in Fushimi, Kyoto - Part 1

Posted in Fushimi ward (伏見区), sake, sake brewery (酒蔵), series, shinise on Jan 25th, 2008

Sake: Learning to Make Sake at Kitagawa Honke Sake Brewery in Fushimi, Kyoto - Part 1

This morning I awoke at 5:00, opened the window and looked out at Kitayama, the North Mountains of Kyoto to see everything covered in heavy snow.
At 7am, amid heavy snowflakes, I was met by Yukihiro Kitagawa, outside his sake brewery, [...]

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