We call the liquor that drink in new year days“otoso”. The origin of “otoso”is a medicine that is soaked in liquor.
But now is change.The medicine has been changed to poison for some people for drinking too much!
Anyway,the new year days and “sake”is relative.
Please look this house.It was a liquor-shop. The shop have been opening over 150 years and this house have been standing over 100years.
Big earthquakes,the wars,typhoons…,every attacks couldn't destroy the shop!
As if the wind is blowing with a element of long-time-matured“sake”,everybody can feel that it is a room remainded for a long time to meet us.
The fairy of old liquor makes us drunken to see the other world.
Then, gathering peple in the days, our grand parents, and more ancestor.
“Indeed,many hard time had passed”with their soft smile.
Covering their gentle and warm kindness,you can smile like a child.
There are 800 gods in japan,we say from ancient days.
You can understand the fact now.