Japanese wine brewing technology to decipher materials that can not be read in Kusushi character Yamanashi December 5 18:51
Two men dispatched to France in the Meiji era to produce domestic wine found that a collection of letters about authentic brewing techniques to Japan was being read in Koshu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. .
Koshu City is proceeding with the interpretation of a collection of letters written by Masanobu Takano and Tatsunori Tsuchiya, who first introduced Japan's full-fledged wine brewing technology during the Meiji period.
They were dispatched to France from Japan's first wine brewing company, Dainippon Yamanashi Sake Company, which was established in Koshu City today, and learned how to cultivate wine grapes that did not exist in Japan. It is said that it was told.
The letter collection has about 150 pages and is written in a unique character with a habit, so the contents have hardly been understood so far, but the method of growing vines for authentic European wine by interpretation After that, it turned out that it was the earliest time that “crop cultivation”, which was started in Japan, was introduced to Japan.
Koshu City plans to compile the readings into a booklet in the next fiscal year, and wants to make it available at libraries in the city.
“I think this is a material that will have a major impact on the history of wine throughout Japan, so I want to make it readable for many people,” said Kobun Masafumi Cultural Director, Koshu City Board of Education.