Tenryo Shuzo (天領酒造株式会社)
Tenryo Shuzo is a sake brewery in Hagiwara, Gero City, Gifu Prefecture, making the Tenryo and Hinoya brands. It uses Hida-grown sake rice, mills the rice in-house, and brews with groundwater from the Hida mountains. KIKI lists one of its bottles.
- Bottles listed
- 1
- Makes
- Sake
- Japan Sake Awards
- 4 golds
Where to buy
What kind of brewery is it?
The family's trade began in Omi-Hino, in present-day Shiga Prefecture, and from the early Edo period its members travelled as merchants under the name Hinoya Sahei. Later they opened a shop in Hida, settled there, and began brewing sake alongside their trade. The family took up brewing as its business in the Meiji era, and in 1956 it was incorporated as Tenryo Shuzo Co., Ltd. The current owner is the eighth generation since brewing began.
What makes it distinct
- Water
- Brewing uses groundwater from the Hida mountains, pumped up from 30 metres underground. The brewery describes its water as soft and a natural sterile water suited to sake brewing.
- Ingredients
- All the rice is sake-brewing rice, mainly Hida-grown Hidahomare. The rice is milled in-house.
- Yeast
- Yeast is chosen to suit the style sought, and flower yeast is used for the aromatic ginjo-style sake.
Compiled with AI from public pages, mainly the brewery’s own site (not yet checked by the brewery)Sources: tenryou.co.jp
Bottles from this brewery
The app finds 33 bottles from this maker by their label (1 on this site).
Japan Sake Awards
A prize-winner in 6 of the 9 contests from brewing year 2017 to 2025, with a gold prize in 4.
Source: the prize lists of the Japan Sake Awards (National Research Institute of Brewing and Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association). Brewing year 2019 had no final judging, so no gold prizes.