Yoshino Senbonzakura is brewed by Kitaoka Honten, a brewery celebrating over 150 years of sake making in Yoshino Town, Nara Prefecture, a region famed for its hillsides blanketed with thousands of cherry trees. The brand name evokes that landscape of a thousand cherry blossoms, and the brewery is best known locally for its Yatagarasu label alongside the Yoshino Senbonzakura junmai ginjo range.