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According to a section on the family's own lineage, written by family head Nakamura Toshi'emon II<!--中村利右衛門--> in [[1701]], the Nakamura family claims descent from [[Tsuji Toshinaga]]<!--辻利長-->, a retainer of [[Imagawa Yoshimoto]] who died at the [[battle of Okehazama]], via Toshinaga's descendant Tsuji Toshiyoshi (aka Kansuke)<!--辻利吉・官介-->. A later descendant, Wakatarô, took on his mother's surname, Nakamura, becoming Nakamura Jôhei Toshitoki<!--中村壌平利時-->. He was active as a physician in [[Osaka]], but his son Yoshinaga<!--吉長--> took on commercial activities. In [[1653]], the family home was destroyed by flood, and two years later Yoshinaga and his family relocated to Tomonoura, with the help of an intellectual named Bankoya. A few years later, in [[1659]], Yoshinaga made use of medicinal techniques he learned from his father, and began brewing a medicinal liquor.

According to a section on the family's own lineage, written by family head Nakamura Toshi'emon II<!--中村利右衛門--> in [[1701]], the Nakamura family claims descent from [[Tsuji Toshinaga]]<!--辻利長-->, a retainer of [[Imagawa Yoshimoto]] who died at the [[battle of Okehazama]], via Toshinaga's descendant Tsuji Toshiyoshi (aka Kansuke)<!--辻利吉・官介-->. A later descendant, Wakatarô, took on his mother's surname, Nakamura, becoming Nakamura Jôhei Toshitoki<!--中村壌平利時-->. He was active as a physician in [[Osaka]], but his son Yoshinaga<!--吉長--> took on commercial activities. In [[1653]], the family home was destroyed by flood, and two years later Yoshinaga and his family relocated to Tomonoura, with the help of an intellectual named Bankoya. A few years later, in [[1659]], Yoshinaga made use of medicinal techniques he learned from his father, and began brewing a medicinal liquor.

By [[1685]], the family business in medicinal liquors, including ''homeishu'', was well underway, and in that year the Nakamura formally presented a number of bottles of liquor to the [[han|domain]]. Soon afterward, they became ''[[goyo shonin|goyô shônin]]'' - official purveyors of products to the domain.

By [[1685]], the family business in medicinal liquors, including ''homeishu'', was well underway, and in that year the Nakamura formally presented a number of bottles of liquor to the [[han|domain]]. Soon afterward, they became ''[[goyo shonin|goyô shônin]]'' (official purveyors of products, in this case liquor, to the domain), as well as quite prominent in local affairs; members of the Nakamura family held a wide variety of local governmental or administrative posts in Tomonoura over the course of the Edo period, including Town Elders (''shukurô''), operators of the town's official ''[[honjin]]'' (inn for elite guests, e.g. foreign & shogunal envoys, visiting daimyo), overseer of ships (''funaza''), and overseer of finances (''ginza''), among others. The ''homeishu'' became quite famous and prized, with not only ''daimyô'' (who often passed through Tomo on their way [[sankin kotai|to and from Edo]]), but also [[VOC|Dutch]] and Ryukyuan embassies regularly placing orders for significant amounts to purchase and take home with them.

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