The mark consists of the cursive devices, the word "THE ONTAKE DISTILLERY", and the KANJI characters "ONTAKE JORYUJO", all in black.
The transliteration of the non-Latin characters in the mark is: ONTAKE JORYUJO.
The meaning of the KANJI characters is "ONTAKE DISTILLERY". ONTAKE is a word meaning "HONORABLE MOUNTAIN" and was used to refer to a "holy mountain". Today, there are mountains called ONTAKE in many places in Japan.