Sake

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Sake (酒, さけ, English pronunciation "sah-kee") is Japanese rice wine. See the [ext] archived versions of this page for a deep general discussion.

  • The sake bottle shape is a dog's head that points towards the centre. It was once claimed that this name was a pun on the word tokkuri, between 徳利 ("sake bottle") and とっくり ("careful"). However, this has been disputed due to a difference in intonation and an apparent lack of the supposed connotation in Japanese usage.
  • "Apparently Genjo was quite fond of choice sake – even once accepting a pupil’s last few coins in exchange for a teaching game, yet exclaiming "Dammit, it’s not even enough to buy one bottle of sake!" This habit may have caused him to make a mistake against Nakano Chitoku."
  • Jowa's heavy loss to Shusaku in a game at a Honinbo rank promotion party is said to have been due to drunkenness, probably from sake

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