28 October 2024: Participation of Ambassador Kano in an event entitled “Nadagogo, the holy land of sake - Traditional sake-making techniques preserved to this day - Nadagogo GI”
2024/10/28
On 28 October, an event entitled “Nadagogo, the holy land of sake - Traditional sake-making techniques preserved to this day - Nadagogo GI” and organized by the Nadagogo Sake Producers Association, Federation of Brewers Associations of Hyogo Prefecture, was held at the Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris. His Excellency Mr KANO Takehiro, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Delegate of Japan to UNESCO, was one of the guests at this event, alongside his fellow Ambassadors, Permanent Delegates to UNESCO, including some members of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The event was an opportunity for the organizer to present not only the Nadagogo Geographical Indication (GI), but also the many cultural and artisanal facets of sake-making, notably through a demonstration of the making of dakidaru (a small barrel designed to hold hot water to speed up the saccharification and fermentation process, NDLR) as well as a performance of saké zukuri uta (“sake producers’ working song").
Ambassador Kano presented the “Traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with koji mold in Japan”, whose candidature will be discussed at the next session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asunción, Paraguay, in December. He expressed the hope that the future inscription of this item on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage would contribute to the popularization of Japanese culinary culture, following the example and complementing the 2013 inscription of “Washoku, traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese, notably for the celebration of the New Year”.
The event was an opportunity for the organizer to present not only the Nadagogo Geographical Indication (GI), but also the many cultural and artisanal facets of sake-making, notably through a demonstration of the making of dakidaru (a small barrel designed to hold hot water to speed up the saccharification and fermentation process, NDLR) as well as a performance of saké zukuri uta (“sake producers’ working song").
Ambassador Kano presented the “Traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with koji mold in Japan”, whose candidature will be discussed at the next session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asunción, Paraguay, in December. He expressed the hope that the future inscription of this item on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage would contribute to the popularization of Japanese culinary culture, following the example and complementing the 2013 inscription of “Washoku, traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese, notably for the celebration of the New Year”.