Yamana’s predecessors were samurai retainers of Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japan’s ruler of the Kamakura period (1185-1333). We represent the bloodline of Yamana Sozen, a general in the Onin no Ran, a storied war of the Muromachi period (1336-1573). Later, the clan ed their territory to escape conflict and took up near Kozenji temple. In 1716, they moved to Kamida, Ichijima City, where Yamana Sake Brewery is now located. e word “Kami” in Kamida means “top” in Japanese, but was originally written as the similar-sounding, “God.” Thanks to the God of agriculture, we have been brewing sake for generations in an environment blessed with ideal rice cultivation conditions. We have continued to brew sake under di erent names: “Sensai,” until the Edo period, “Banzai,” since the Meiji period, and, “Okutamba” from the Heisei period in 1989

当家はもともと源氏の総大将、頼朝に付き従った関東武士で、室町時代に応仁の乱で京の都を騒がせた山名宗全の血筋。その後、一族内の争いを逃れて領地を離れ、春日町の興禅寺付近で船川姓に変えて潜んでいましたが、江戸享保元年（ 1716年）に現在の市島町上田の地に移り、元の山名姓に戻したのが遠祖の始まりと伝わります。カミダ（上田）は神田の呼称が転じたともいわれ、このように稲作に恵まれた環境のもと代々酒造りを生業にしております。江戸時代までは「千歳」、明治維新の際に「萬歳」、平成に入って「奥丹波」と酒銘を変えて仕込み続けて参りました。