Event has ended*Iwate Sake Festival 2025 in Morioka

I studied architecture and worked in renovation and new construction, and now that I have finished raising my three children, I brew beer that I like and that I hope people who don't like beer and women can enjoy as an everyday beer when they take a breather. When my children were young, it was difficult to enjoy beer, but now that I have more time on my hands, I hope that the mix of people who drink craft beer, the people who make it, the ingredients, and the seasons will create a single flavor, and that I can create moments of relaxation and conversation with my own unique beer while brewing craft beer. We hope to create a time of relaxation and conversation with our unique beers. We would be happy if you could pick up a bottle as an item for family gatherings or as part of the local community.

I have been training in winemaking in and outside of Iwate Prefecture since 2019, and will open a winery in 2023. Before working in wine, I worked in acupuncture and relaxation. The idea of creating a winery came when I realized that three apple fields were no longer being used in one year. After discussions with a network of local businesses in four areas of Morioka City (Kurokawa, Otobe, Teshiomori, and Okefu), which is also the origin of the name "KOTO," we decided to plant grapes in the apple fields and create a winery. I was working in the relaxation business at the time, but since I liked learning new things, I joined the winery project without hesitation and experienced everything from growing grapes to winemaking, shipping, and events for a year. I also took a training course for new farmers at an agricultural college and a course on winemaking, and since then I have been working at other wineries and continuing to learn. The next spring we planted half the current area of grapes, and the spring after that we planted the other half, leading to the start of winemaking at the winery in the fall of 2023 when the grape vines were five years old.

In 1997, I joined the Tsuki no Wa Sake Brewery and began brewing sake. We have been developing products such as gelato and sake kasu (sake lees) in order to inform sake drinkers and non-drinkers alike about the benefits of sake. Although the first brewer is different from the others, the owner-touji has been brewing sake for generations, and in order to maintain close ties with the local community, they continue to hold "Tsuki no Wawa wo Yumemu Kai," a sake brewing workshop organized by the local community center, where participants can learn about the brewing process and even try their hand at making sake. The Tsuki no Wa Sake Brewery has the "Wakasaya Ice Cream Garden," which offers gelato in the "Wakasaya" direct sales store on the premises, and sells ice cream made with "rice koji" (rice malt). The "Koji-kouji" ice cream, made only with rice, rice koji, and milk, is a patented ice cream made by applying the sake brewing technology of saccharification by the power of koji, without adding sugar. It contains 40% fewer calories than regular gelato, although it does contain granulated sugar and whipped cream, which serve as thickeners. We invite you to taste it at the restaurant.