Edozumi Sake Brewing Association

...Specifically, Nadame consists of the Upper Nada and the Lower Nada, the Upper Nada belonging to Uhara District, Settsu Province, and the Lower Nada belonging to Yatabe District, Settsu Province. Together with Imazu in Muko District, the three Nada districts made up three of the twelve districts of the Edo Tsumi-Setsu Setsen Junigo Shuzo Nakama. In addition to the Nada district, the other twelve districts were Osaka, Denpo, Ikeda, Itami, Amagasaki, Kitazai, Hyogo, Nishinomiya, and Sakai, which formed the Edo Tsumi-Setsu Shuzo Nakama in the mid-Edo period and monopolized the Edo Tsumi-Setsu brewing business only for these twelve districts. However, the development of the sake brewing industry in Nadame was particularly remarkable in the Upper Nada, and at its peak in the Bunka and Bunsei periods (1804-30), the Upper Nada was further divided into three districts (districts): the East District, the Middle District, and the West District.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Edo Tsumi Shuzo Nakama" is listed below.

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…具体的には灘目は上灘と下灘からなり，上灘は摂津国菟原（うはら）郡，下灘は同国八部（やたべ）郡に属し，これに武庫郡の今津を加えた灘三郷が，江戸積摂泉十二郷酒造仲間の12郷のうちの3郷を形成していたのである。この12郷は灘三郷のほかに，大坂，伝法，池田，伊丹，尼崎，北在，兵庫，西宮，堺からなり，江戸時代中期における江戸積酒造仲間を結成して，この12郷に限って江戸積酒造業の営業を独占していた。しかし灘目における酒造業の発展はとくに上灘において目覚ましく，文化･文政期(1804‐30)の最盛期には，この上灘がさらに東組，中組，西組の3組(郷)に分かれた。…

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