With the arrival of this vertical type rice-milling machine, rice polishing technique innovatively advanced in the 1930s, which eventually brought the mass production of ginjoshu (high-quality sake brewed at low temperature from rice grains milled to 60% weight or less) in the 1980s.
この縦型精米機の出現によって、1930年代の精米技術は革新的な進歩を遂げ、ひいては1980年代の吟醸酒の大量生産を可能にした。