This series started in 1992, and was named by Oze Akira, the manga artist who created Natsuko no Sake. The label is Oze Sensei’s design.
Perhaps you’ve heard of a manga called Natsuko no Sake?
A series by the manga artist Oze Akira that kicked off in 1988, it told the story of Natsuko, a copywriter in Tokyo, who gives up her career to go home to Niigata prefecture and take over the family sake brewery when her elder brother dies. Natsuko’s brother’s dream had been to revive a long-lost variety of brewing rice and make the ultimate junmaishu with it, and the manga follows Natsuko as she takes on the challenges of making that dream come true.
It was this manga series that led to the birth of our own flagship label, “Rumiko no Sake.” Not only that, this manga series was our introduction to Junmai-shu.
