Born in the late 1960s into a family of printmakers in Tokyo’s Shimbashi district, Ryosuke Kunisawa recalls childhood memories of the shop: cleaning the rollers on their original Heidelberg cylinder press and hand-carving woodblock-printed greeting cards to send out each New Year’s Day.
However, unlike some families in Japan, where each generation focuses on a single craft, the Kunisawas have not always been printers. And since taking over the reins of the company himself, the newest addition has opened up a new industry: home-brewed beer.
By redesigning the first two floors of the sleek, eight-story family home, Kunisawa launched it Kunisawa Brewery in May 2022 – Shimbashi’s first brewery – to join Art and craft Kawachiyathe current iteration of the family business, as an integrated “concept brewpub.”
