Around 1985, when efforts for recovery from stagnation began, Nakagawa Shuzo, the producer of 'Fukujukai' and Yamane Shuzojo, the producer of 'Hiokizakura,' both breweries being in Tottori Prefecture, were given a handful of seed rice that had been kept as materials in the Faculty of Agriculture at Tottori University and started their revival with cooperation by farmers; in 1990, the yield reached a quantity sufficient to produce a minimum unit of moromi.
低迷からの模索が図られ始めた昭和60年（1985年）ごろに、県内「福寿海」の中川酒造と「日置桜」の山根酒造場が、鳥取大学農学部に資料として残されていた一握りの種籾を譲り受け、農家の協力を得て復刻開始、平成2年（1990年）に醪一本分の収量を得るに到った。