English versions of our bilingual articles on Japanese sake, craft beer and the music that goes with them. Each article pairs one specific bottle with one song, and tells the story of the brewery and the place it comes from.
Sake & Kayōkyoku
Japanese sake paired with the songs of its home region. 36 articles.
- A Brewery That Fell for the Water, Three Hundred Years and Counting
- A Devotion That Blooms Like a Camellia
- After Thirty-Five Years, Sake Returns to the Port
- Beneath the Night Cherry Blossoms, a Color Quietly Burning
- Blooming Red Beneath the Snow
- Center Stage, and Deep in the Brewery
- Crossing the Mountain, Carried by Wine
- Even After Crossing the Sea, the Family Sake Remains Unchanged
- Even After Losing Everything, the Light Never Went Out
- From One Small Drop, Across the Whole Country
- From a Harbor After the Rain, the Luan Takes Flight
- From a Quiet Cup, the Dawn Breaks
- From a Wild Cape, Their Finest Cup
- From an Unknown Corner of Japan, All the Way to the Top of the World
- In Hakusan’s Waters, a Thousand-Year Chrysanthemum Still Blooms
- Like a Whale Crossing the Sea
- Mountain Rice, Caught by a Brewery on the Sea
- Named for the Same Mountain
- Only After the Winter Does It Run Clear
- The Flavor They Refused to Polish Away, Rowing Across Lake Biwa
- The Frozen Port That Polished a Single Drop
- The Name Changed Four Times, But the River Never Did
- The Place You Were Born Never Changes
- The Real Sky Still Hangs Over the Brewery Roof
- The Sake That Never Aimed to Be Number One Ends Up Closest of All
- The Sake That Stays a Supporting Role, Quietly Backing the Port Town’s Song
- The Sweetness That Quietly Held Up the Spotlight
- The Year They Both Left Kumamoto
- Twelve Breweries, One Clear Spring
- Watching Over Every Bride Who Crosses the Strait
- Water From the Mountains, Flowing Toward the Sea
- What Lay Quietly Beneath the Ground Was Protecting the City All Along
- When the Apple Blossoms Bloom, an Unadorned Flavor Awaits
- Where the Dragonflies Return
- Where the River Became a Song, the Sake Has Come Home
- Where the Sacred Deer’s Legend Still Flows
Craft Beer & Music
Japanese craft beer paired with the music that fits the glass. 20 articles.
- A Night That Copies No One
- A Scent That Stays, a Snow That Doesn’t
- Changing While Staying the Same
- Halfway Down the Road to the Sea
- Just the Right Balance
- Landing, and Taking Root
- Mellowing As It Comes Around
- Never Lie to a Swan
- On Your Own Two Feet, However Far
- The Closer It Gets to Room Temperature, the More It Gives
- The Color of This Town, Seen From Outside
- The Color of the Place You Come Home To
- The Driest Glass Is the One That Stays
- The Ties That Didn’t Hold
- The Treasure That Was Already Close
- The Water That Was Never Filled In
- To the Man Who Made Us Laugh
- Toward Where It Rises
- Until One Person’s Words Became the Mountain’s Song
- Waiting for the Tide to Turn