Maruishijozo

Maruishi Brewery began making sake in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture in 1690. For over 330 years, they have continued to make Japanese sake.

Okazaki City, where the brewery is located, has a long history as the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who established peace during the Edo period, and is also an area surrounded by mountains and rivers with a rich natural environment.

Maruishi's history began when the first generation, Mita Sadao, heard about sake brewing from the traffic along the Tokaido road that runs from the west to Edo in the midst of the Edo period. He acquired farmland and utilized a large amount of rice to start the sake brewing business in 1690. During the Meiji period, the business expanded into the cotton industry and banking, and in 1900, they began brewing sake in Nada, Nishinomiya City. At that time, the sake brewed in Nada was called "Choyo," and the sake brewed locally in Okazaki was called "Mikawa Bushi." After that, they began making shochu, mirin, miso, soy sauce, and other products in Okazaki, and the brewery prospered. However, during the Pacific War, most of the brewery was destroyed in the Okazaki air raid, and they rebuilt the miso brewery in Nakamachi, Okazaki City, which was the only remaining part after the war, and resumed sake brewing. While the brewery has undertaken various businesses since its founding, the only thing that has continued since the beginning is making Japanese sake. They carry on their history from Okazaki to future generations.