Zuisen Distillery 瑞泉酒造
The black yeast collected here in 1935 had survived in Tokyo, and it came back in 1998.
An awamori distillery founded in 1887 in Shuri. In 1935 Professor Sakaguchi Kiichirō, a scholar of fermentation, collected a strain of black yeast at the Kyan distillery, its forerunner, and took it to Tokyo. In 1998 the company discovered that the strain had survived the bombing of Tokyo and was being kept at the University: it brought it back to Okinawa and put it back into production, under the name ushu.
Okinawa
Yamagawa, NOVOTEL Okinawa Naha, Shuri
