Yamada Kyoto Corporation is located in Kyoto prefecture in Japan, producing and selling outstanding high quality handmade sesame products, not to mention, including top selling sesame oil.

The characteristic of production of our sesame pastes is that we grind sesames twice using the old fashioned stone mortars. By grinding them twice, it creates creamy, aromatic, and sweet sesame paste. We use stone mortar because it doesn’t cause to add extra heat to the roasted sesame. If the roasted sesame gets extra heat during grinding, its flavor and aroma that roasting made before the grinding will be completely lost. Stone mortars don’t cause this heating problem. They make GOMA NERI NERI, the sesame paste, with excellent aroma and flavor.

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Message from CEO
Mr. Yukikazu Sakurazawa who started macrobiotics recommended Yutaka Yamada, the founder of our company, to start making sesame oils. His sesame oils had incredible aroma. We use black sesames to make sesame oil that has aroma like his. I still remember the aroma of sesame oils that my grandfather, the founder of our company, made, and I smell the same aroma in our black sesame oil. Only difference is that his sesame oil used to have stronger smell of roasted sesame than our current black sesame oil does. He roasted sesames longer than we currently do because roasting sesames until right before it burns makes more aroma. At the same time, roasting sesames longer makes sesame oil bitter.

These days, people don’t like bitter sesame oil because they often pour raw sesame oil on foods like vegetable directly. We did a lot of trial and error in attempt to make sesame oil that’s not bitter but still has incredible aroma. Then we found that using black sesames that are produced in a particular producing district can make less bitter sesame oil even if it’s roasted for a long time. This is how we came up with our current black sesame oil that has incredible aroma that my grandfather’s sesame oil had at that time. So this black sesame oil is the very sesame oil that we’ve been producing ever since our company was established.

This sesame oils comes with enjoyable incredibly rich flavor and aroma. It can also add more flavor to other aromatic spices and strong-flavored foods while keeping the sesame’s incredibly rich flavor and aroma.

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Yamada Kyoto Corporation’s classic sesame oil. Using carefully selected white sesames, production processes of this sesame oil has never changed since foundation of our company. Sesame professionals completes production process by determining the very best timing that gives the sesame oil the very best flavor depending on various factors such as season and weather.

The production process from roasting to squeezing, washing with hot water, letting it stand, and refining takes about a month all together. We’ve been making this classic sesame oil this way for about 80 years without any modification in any steps. We squeeze sesames only once; never twice or three times. Only the first squeezed sesames become sesame oil of HENKO, meaning the determined in Japanese, YAMADA.

We don’t use any additives or chemicals or what so ever at all. We never cheat on any of the steps in our production process. It’s completly handmade.

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This sesame oil has flavor and aroma of sesame itself because this is made by squeezing white sesames without roasting them. It doesn’t taste like refined sesame oil but has flavor and aroma of raw sesame itself.

This sesame oils is made by squeezing sesames, washing them with hot water, letting them stand, and refining them on room temperature without pressing them. The entire process is done carefully and slowly. Only the first squeezed oil makes it to production. This sesame oil is sweeter and has clearer golden color comparing to roasted sesame oils.

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Sesame oil with locally grown garlic that has amazing flavor of mixture of the sesame and garlic. This is made by boiling locally grown garlic with our extra virgin sesame oil and laying it for a week to have the garlic’s flavor completely mixed into the sesame oil.
It can be used for various cuisines in various ways. When you forgot to buy a garlic, use this instead. When you’re too busy to make your own garlic oil, use this. When you don’t like touching garlic because your hands will then smell like garlic, use this. When you’re looking for stronger aroma of garlic, use this. It can be heated up with meals or it can be just poured it onto the dish without heating it up. No matter how it’s used, this can be used for any kind of dishes that you want to have garlic in it!

Aroma of scallion and ginger of this oil makes your dish even more flavorful.

This is made by boiling locally grown white scallion that has strong flavor, extremely aromatic ginger, and our extra virgin sesame oil all together and laying it for a week to have the scallion’s aroma and the ginger’s aroma completely mixed into the sesame oil.

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This is handmade sesame oil made by Koichi Yamada, the third generation CEO of our company. He carefully roasts sesame in the iron pot and then squeezes them using the custom made compressor.

Sesames make sweet aroma only for about 10 seconds about a minute before they’re roasted with aroma of roasting. He makes this sesame oil because he really want you all to experience this sweet aroma of sesame that only handmade sesame oil makes it possible.

Also, this is the only unfiltered sesame oil among our sesame oil products. All elements of sesame are in this oil.

Extremely rare and valuable chili peppers made in Japan and carefully selected spices are mixed with our first squeezed sesame oil. It’s not just hot; it also has rich flavor and aroma. Putting just few drops of this oil on your meal or sauce makes the meal even more flavorful. You won’t be able to have your meal without this once you try. It doesn’t contain any additives, artificial colors, preservatives, or what so ever at all.

It's light but has amazingly rich taste at the same time. The special aroma of roasted sesame and white sesame's mild flavor will definitely make you want to use it on all kinds of dishes you'll have no matter what raw ingredients were used for the dish or how they were cooked.

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry certified our HENKO, meaning determined in Japanese, first squeezed sesame oil as "the world class high quality Japanese local product" for their project called The Wonder 500 that aims to discover unique Japanese products.

The certification in Japanese can be found at here

This sesame oil has aroma and flavor of raw sesames as the sesames are not roasted. The sweetness that it has is not of sugar but of raw sesame itself.

Using bundling method, only the first squeezed oil is used for our product after the sesames are being pressed, washed in hot water, laid for weeks, and refined. Comparing to roasted sesame oil, this sesame oil is much sweeter and has clearer yellow color.

It comes with a box that you can also give it to someone as a gift.

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This sesame oil is the very first product that Yamada Kyoto Corporation started to produce. It’s made by white sesame. The producing process of this sesame oil and its quality has never changed ever since the establishment of our company. Our sesame production professionals decides the very best timing to complete the production process that several factors such as season and weather affects its quality.
It’s production process takes about a month from roasting the sesames to pressing them, washing them in hot water, laying them for weeks, and refining them. We’ve been doing the exact same process for about 80 years without modifying any of these steps because it is the best way to make the highest quality sesame oil. We squeeze the sesames only once, not twice or three times. Only the first squeezed sesame oil is used for our product, again, to produce only the highest quality sesame oil.
We Yamada Kyoto Corporation have never used any additives or chemicals or whatsoever ever since the establishment of our company. We produce only handmade products using our old fashioned production method that makes the highest quality sesame oils.