酒

highest or finest quality sake

drinking game

drinker; drinking companions

alcohol (esp. sake) served in a small wooden box; alcohol (esp. sake) sold in a small wooden box

good wine; good drink

Food, cooking

dish of pickled skipjack tuna entrails sometimes mixed with sake, honey, mirin and onions (specialty of Kochi Prefecture)

drinking place; bar; izakaya

sake-producing area

alcoholic beverage for medicinal purposes

From 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol)

beer belly

snake shōchū

nightcap; drink at night

love of alcohol; drinker

pouring one's own drinks; drinking alone

swearing off liquor

brewery; distillery; winery

maotai (variety of distilled Chinese alcohol)

flag raised as a sign for an izakaya

pure sake; pure rice wine; undiluted sake; unadulterated sake

traditional Japanese alcohol (primarily sake, but also shōchū and fruit wine)

Buddhism

Buddhist precept prohibiting the consumption of alcohol

drunken spree or frenzy

high-grade sake

miscellaneous liquors (alcohol tax category); alcohol other than sake, shōchū, mirin, beer, etc.