Tomita Sake Brewery Maekake Apron

Shichi Hon Yari is named after the seven spearsmen who became legends at the battle of Shizugatake fought just outside the town of Kinomoto in 1583. In this battle, these seven warriors crushed their enemy and brought victory to their leader, the warlord, Hideyoshi. One battle later, Hideyoshi defeated the Nobunaga clan and secured his dominance over Japan. When the Tomita’s started shipping their saké to the new capital of Tokyo, in the Edo Period, they named their sake after these great warriors and created the “saké of victory.”

This Apron arrives displaying the logo of the Seven spearsmen of the Tomita Brewry founded in the 1540’s in the small town of Kinomoto, Japan where the sake brewery carries on to this day.