Nara style sake brewing is the origin of all the sake brewing schools including Sessen-juni-go (the twelve sake brewing districts in the provinces of Settsu and Izumi) where Kudari-zake (sake shipped from Kyoto and Osaka to Edo) was produced in the Edo period such as Itami-zake (sake brewed in the present Itami City, Hyogo Prefecture), Konoike-style, Kohama-style and Ikeda-style, and Nada-gogo (the five sake-producing areas in the present cities of Nishinomiya and Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture) which prospered in the later Edo period based on the technological innovation.
江戸時代に下り酒を生産する摂泉十二郷の伊丹酒、鴻池流、小浜流、池田流など、あるいはそこからさらに技術革新し江戸後期に栄える灘五郷など、すべての流派はこの奈良流を源流とする。