| Although it is not certain when Japanese people began to make liquor from rice, but it seems to be after rice cropping, especially wet-rice cultivation, had been established and its stable harvesting had become possible. |
日本列島に住む人々がいつ頃から米を原料とした酒を造るようになったのかは定かではないが、稲作、とりわけ水稲の耕作が定着し、安定して米が収穫できるようになってからのことであるのは確かと思われる。 |