March 15, 2026
Kokushu Digital Museum has launched three new exhibitions—Sake Labels, Brewery Sketches, and Sake Vessels. Visitors can also explore several newly added videos about sake.
October 1st, 2021
Kokushu Digital Musuem Grand Opening!
Today we are proud to announce the opening of exhibits that feature sake and ukiyo-e, advertisement, and media. In addition, we have partially released sections about the producers supporting sake and sake brewing songs(Traditional Production).

• About the ‘Ukiyo-e and Japanese Sake’ Exhibition
• About the Connection between People and Sake in the Edo Period
• Evening View of Ryogoku
• The Kabuki Actor Sawamura Sojuro III and Courtesans
• Early Evening in Yoshiwara Inn
• Beloved Sake at Sumida River
• A Glance Inside the Theater
• A Depiction of a Backstage Drinking Party After a Hit Theater Show by Ichimura-za
• A Depiction of Eight Views of a Kanjin Sumo Drinking Party
• Notable Young Women of the Present Day

• About the ‘Sake and Advertisement’ Exhibition
• About Alcohol Advertising and Alcohol Related Social Issues
• Sugidama
• Sugi no You
• “Shirayuki” Signboard
• “Gekkeikan” Signboard
• Fujiwara Tankaikou
• “Tamamono Goshu Shi Nigiwai” ” Shikan Nakamura” “Fukusuke Nakamura”
• Bijin-ga (Portrait of a beauty)
• “Edo Komeikai Teizu” “Shitaya Hirokoji” “Toei Sanroku Kawachirojo Sake Banquet Scene”

• About the ‘Media and Sake’ Exhibition
• Midnight Diner
• To Live
• An Incurable Case of Love
• Nabbie’s Love
• Rokugatsudou no Sanshimai (June Light’s 3 Sisters)
• Maison Ikkoku (Ikkoku Apartment)
• Tokyo Story
• Rurouni Kenshin
• Otoko wa Tsurai yo (It’s Tough Being a Man)

• Registration and Designation of Japanese Heritage, Intangible Cultural Properties, and Folk Cultural Properties Related to Kokushu
• About Sake Brewing Songs
• “Maritime Transport and Distribution” — Itami Morohaku and Nada no Kiippon: How the Downriver Sake Trade Gave Rise to the Celebrated Brewing Regions of Itami and the Nada Gogo
• “Tanba Toji” — Itami Morohaku and Nada no Kiippon: How the Downriver Sake Trade Gave Rise to the Celebrated Brewing Regions of Itami and the Nada Gogo
• “Sake Rice” — Itami Morohaku and Nada no Kiippon: How the Downriver Sake Trade Gave Rise to the Celebrated Brewing Regions of Itami and the Nada Gogo
• “Water” — Itami Morohaku and Nada no Kiippon: How the Downriver Sake Trade Gave Rise to the Celebrated Brewing Regions of Itami and the Nada Gogo
• “Geography” — Itami Morohaku and Nada no Kiippon: How the Downriver Sake Trade Gave Rise to the Celebrated Brewing Regions of Itami and the Nada Gogo
• “History” — Itami Morohaku and Nada no Kiippon: How the Downriver Sake Trade Gave Rise to the Celebrated Brewing Regions of Itami and the Nada Gogo
• The Pride of the Toji (1981)
• Sake Brewing in the Edo Period (English)

• Sake and Its Vessels
• Shikaoi Ware
• Nambu Ironware
• Cedar Sake Cups
• Hirashimizu Ware
• Tsutsumi Ware
• Aizu Lacquerware
• Stainless Steel Sake Cup “Sansaku Asagao”
• Mashiko Ware
• Kasama Ware

• “Hashiba”
• Depicting Sake Breweries — Reflections on the “Sake Brewery Sketches” Exhibition
• GI Saga (English)
• Sakura Blooming in Ehime — Ehime Sakurahime Series Promotional Video
• Sake of Ehime, Japan
• The Start and the Future of Sake, Nara Sake, Nara Sake (Long Version, 18 min.) (English)
• The Start and the Future of Sake, Nara Sake (Short Version, 6 min.) (English)
• Fushimi Sake: Visiting the Town of Breweries (5-minute version)
• Fushimi Sake: Visiting the Town of Breweries (10-minute version)
• Sakahomare Local Sake

• A Collaboration of Two Aesthetics: Image and Calligraphy
• “Unryu”
• “Kikkei”
• “Shiragiku”
• “Wakamatsu”
• “Hatsukoe”
• “Suginoi”
• “Hakushika”
• “Shimagasaki”
• “Shikishima”