Although concrete measures were different as the occasion demanded, the sake brewing restriction decrees were enforced 61 times and the sake brewing promotion decrees 6 times throughout the Edo period, which indicates basic direction was, as a whole, to impose restrictions.
その具体的政策はときどきに応じて異なるが、江戸時代を通じて酒造制限令が61回、酒造奨励令が6回発せられ、全体的には規制をかけることが基調であった。