On the other hand, in 1979, concurrently with Kusumi Shuzo considering the revival of Kameno-o brand sake, another brewer Kazuyoshi SATO of Koikawa Shuzo, a brewery at Amarume-machi, Higashi-Tagawa County, Yamagata Prefecture, made up his mind to restore Kameno-o brand, since he believed that his predecessor Junichi SATO had kept an ardent wish to revive Kameno-o that was born in this Amarume-machi in the Meiji Period and to manufacture incomparable sake using the Kameno-o rice, although he has not seen the light of day yet because he had delayed one year before the debut of his newly brewed sake.
一方では、製成酒が世に出るのが一年遅れたために日の目を得ていないが、久須美酒造が亀の尾の復活を考えていたのとまさに同時期に、山形県東田川郡余目町（あまるめまち）の酒造家である鯉川酒造の蔵元佐藤一良は、明治時代に地元余目町で誕生した亀の尾の復活と、それを使って誰にも負けない酒を造ることが先代の蔵元佐藤淳一の悲願であったことを受けて、1979年（昭和54年）に亀の尾の復活を決心した。