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Founded in 1805 when Yokota Shoemon, an Omi merchant, opened a brewery in search of good water. "Nihonbashi" is because he trained at a sake wholesaler in Nihonbashi, Edo (Tokyo). He chose the place of his training as a sake name thinking "we should not forget our original intentions." No way he could register that trademark today. The brewing water is collected from a private well where underground water from the Arakawa River system at the headwaters of Chichibu springs up. The quality is slightly soft, producing a slow fermentation and complex, mellow sake.