Tradition and Craft Organising: A Review of the Context of Japanese Sake Master Brewer

Goto, Masashi

Tradition and Craft Organising: A Review of the Context of Japanese Sake Master Brewer

No DP2024-07, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: This early-stage study explores how traditional expert craft occupations, continuing through the pre-modern age, can maintain and transfer expert knowledge today. A literature review was conducted on Toji (Japanese sake master brewer), revealing (1) its organising with craft unions (an organizational form for craft expert occupations) after the Meiji restoration and (2) drastic changes with decreasing Toji population in the last five decades. The analysis identifies three factors that potentially contribute to the sustainability of expert craft occupation's knowledge maintenance and transfer: (a) hybrid organising integrated with the corporate and government sector, (b) formation of open communities of innovation-oriented craft workers and (c) new technologies substituting tacit human knowledge.

Keywords: Craft union; Traditional craft; Occupation; Sake; Toji (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2024-03
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