Kikubijin Shuzo (菊美人酒造株式会社)
Kikubijin Shuzo is a brewery, founded in 1735. A sake brewery in Setaka, Miyama City, Fukuoka, making the Kikubijin brand with hand-managed drip filtering and boat-press filtering.
- Makes
- Sake
- Japan Sake Awards
- 1 gold
Where to buy
What kind of brewery is it?
The brewery was founded in 1735, beginning with water from the Yabe River and rice from the Chikugo plain. In 1900 Kayo, the elder sister of the poet Kitahara Hakushu, married into the household of the sixth-generation owner. During the war the brewery was requisitioned as a navy parts factory and closed for two years. As other Setaka breweries shut down, it became the last one remaining, dropped efficient machine pressing and moved to hand-stacked boat pressing for all its sake. Each winter it holds a new-sake open-house event.
What makes it distinct
- Style
- Two hand-managed pressing methods are used: drip filtering and boat-press filtering. For boat pressing, sake bags are stacked by hand in the press and only the first flow is used.
Compiled with AI from public pages, mainly the brewery’s own site (not yet checked by the brewery)Sources: kikubijin.co.jp
Japan Sake Awards
A prize-winner in 3 of the 9 contests from brewing year 2017 to 2025, with a gold prize in 1.
Source: the prize lists of the Japan Sake Awards (National Research Institute of Brewing and Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association).