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The Sapporo Beer Museum (サッポロビール博物館, Sapporo Bīru Hakubutsukan) is a museum located in the Sapporo Garden Park in Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. Registered as one of the Hokkaidō Heritage sites in 2004, the museum is the only beer museum in Japan. [ 2 ]
The Yodokō Guest House was built as the summer villa for the well-to-do brewer of Sakura-Masamune sake, Tazaemon Yamamura, and is the only surviving Frank Lloyd Wright residence in Japan. [1] The guest house was designed in 1918, and construction was completed in 1924.
Brewery of Izumi Yūnosuke Shōten,the only wooden building brewery in Nada-Gogō (Mikage-gō) Nada-Gogō (灘五郷, nada-gogō, "The Five Villages of Nada") are five area-based groupings of sake breweries in the cities of Kobe and Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is the largest sake producing region in Japan, with breweries in the ...
Sawanotsuru Sake Museum The Sawanotsuru Museum was opened in November 1978, with the aim of leaving the history of sake brewing to future generations. In March 1980, both the museum and the sake brewing tools held within it were designated as " Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties " by Hyogo Prefecture .
In 1902, Nanbu Bijin Brewery was first established as only a sake retailer. [1] Then, in 1915, it was licensed to brew sake. Its name comes from a combination of words: nanbu stands for the region, and bijin for beautiful woman. [1] The current tōji (Kanji: 杜氏 Hiragana: とうじ), or master sake brewer, is Hajime Yamaguchi. In 1992 ...
In 2001, Harper took and passed the Nanbu Brewer's Guild Exam thus earning him the title of toji or master sake brewer. [3] This title has also earned him a place in Japanese history as Harper is the first non-Japanese person to have earned the prestigious title.
Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum (白鶴美術館, Hakutsuru Bijutsukan) opened in 1934 in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan to display the collection of Kanō Jihei, seventh head of the Hakutsu Sake Brewing Company (白鶴酒造). As such it was one of the first private museums in Japan. [1]
Japan Heritage (日本遺産, Nihon Isan) is a programme sponsored by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, aimed at valorization by local governments and other bodies, that sees individual Cultural Properties across different categories as well as other not-yet-designated assets grouped together into thematic "stories" that the agency then designates as "Japan Heritage".