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vice director of the Sakeology Center at Niigata University. “Another theory is that as sake became mass produced, a lot of heavy labor and dangerous tasks were involved,” he said.

The reasons behind the ban remain obscure. One theory is that women were considered impure because of menstruation and were therefore excluded from sacred spaces, said Yasuyuki Kishi, vice director of ...