松下醸造場

The Story of 松下醸造場

Matsushita Jozojo traces its start to 1804, when first-generation Jihei began distilling shochu in Mizukami, a village in Kumamoto's Kuma valley — making it, by tradition, the oldest kura in the Kuma shochu region. Now run by the 14th generation, the brewery works out of a building built partly with centuries-old timber salvaged from Shozen-in, known locally as the "cat temple." It makes only rice shochu, sold under the single label Saikogura.