日本酒は、古の人たちの感謝から生まれた醸造酒です。まずは土ありき。その上に太陽と水が降りそそぐから、稲が育つ。その稲に米が実る。その米を喜びと共に刈り取り、その収穫への感謝と再度の収穫とを願いながら人々は、その米で酒を醸し、まずは神々へと捧げました。
その供物としてのお酒を日本人は世界屈指の複雑精緻な醸造法・並行複発酵で醸し、美酒へと育てあげてきました。美酒を醸すためには、大地で育まれた米と天からの水、そして人の叡知と技とが共存しなければなりません。その人を生かし育むのもまた、海、山、川、里、森羅万象からの恵みです。
生きて酒を交わしあえることの喜び。喜びが生まれることへの感謝の思い。その感謝をこめて醸されているのが、この神田豊島屋・利他のラインナップです。
Nihonshu is a brewed beverage born of the appreciation of the people of long ago. First, there was the earth. After the sun and rain fell upon that, rice plants could grow. These yielded rice that was harvested along with joy, and they felt appreciation for the harvest, and while hoping for yet another successful harvest to come, they made sake with that rice and offered it to the gods.
Japanese people brewed the sake that was offered to the gods using one of the most the complex and precise brewing methods in the world, multiple parallel fermentation, and made it into a delicious beverage. To brew such tasty sake, rice grown on the earth and water from the heavens must coexist with the superb wisdom and technical skill of people. And those people are in turn raised by the blessings of the oceans, mountains, rivers, villages and forests. This is the joy of being alive and sharing sake. It is gratitude for those things that bring us joy.
The Kanda Toshimaya Rita line of sake is brewed with this spirit of appreciation.