More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Along the banks of the Hama River in the southern part of what is now Kashima City in Saga Prefecture in Kyushu, Hizen Hamashuku was a tow...

Fujii Shuzo Sake Brewery Takehara At the northern end of the historic district of Takehara in Hiroshima is the former sake brewery of Fujii...

Museums of Hita 日田市 Whisky Museum I visited Hita, a small, historic town near the border of Fukuoka in Oita, several times, the first being ...

Sake 酒 Just about every town in Japan, large or small, has at least one sake brewery. In Hita the biggest, Kuncho Shuzo Sake Brewery is loca...

Buzen Buzen was the histoical name for a small province in the north of Kyushu, and the Buen kaido was a "road" that connected the...

Upon arriving at Tondo matsuri the first thing to do is get a drink of Kappo Zake, sake poured into a piece of bamboo that is then heated ...

The Kappa, Japanese water imp, does on occasion behave kindly to humans, but mostly it is a malevolent creature, so it is not surprising tha...

A huge stack of sakedaru (sake barrels) at Matsuo Shrine near Kyoto. Matsuo is the home of the patron kami of sake brewers. Sake when offere...