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Matsumoto Sake Brewery in Fushimi. It is known for its scenery of a Meiji-era brick chimney and earthen storehouses standing side by side.
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Matsumoto Shuzo is a sake company in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture. Its head-office brewery, built in 1922 (Taisho 11), has been certified as a Modernization Industrial Heritage. Its founding is said to be in 1791 (3rd year of Kansei), when Matsumoto Jihei began brewing sake under the trade name "Sawaya" in what is now Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto. It was reorganized as a joint-stock company in 1949 (Showa 24), and in 1922 (Taisho 11), in the time of the 7th head, Matsumoto Jihei, a brewery was added at the present site on the west bank of the Shin-Takase River.
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Field：Sake, modern brewery landscape
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