Manufacture of this was protected by the Kumamoto domain from the Edo Period and continued to be brewed even after refined sake production entered the Prefecture around the time of the Meiji Restoration and Seinan War.
江戸時代から熊本藩による保護を受け、明治維新と西南戦争を境に清酒が県内に入ってきても生産され続けてきた伝統を持つ。