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Niigata blackthroat seaperch, seared-skin sashimi

This is a sashimi course. I sear the skin of Niigata's nodoguro to give it a seared-and-chilled finish. Letting a little heat into the fish really…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,760

• Cook time 30 min

Hamo Abura-Shimo Sashimi, Water Spinach, and Powdered Soy Sauce

As a way of serving seafood, I devised a new combination of refreshingly summery aromas, flavors, and ingredients. Also, thinking of umami's richness…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Clam shinjo

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Sudachi Soba: Soba, Sudachi

The sudachi soba is hand-made using buckwheat flour from the Shirakami Mountains, decorated attractively with slices of sudachi, and served in a…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Okowa roll

This is a reimagining of Gunma Prefecture's local cuisine. This is a steamed dish. Through a collaboration of Tsumagoi cabbage and one of Gunma's…

• Serves 1 · ¥490

• Cook time 3 hr

Pike conger and matsutake, gently simmered

This is what's known as a 'deai-mono' — a dish pairing two ingredients that come into season together — for autumn. It's a simple dish you often see…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 20 min

Eggplant Somen

This is an introduction from our restaurant's popular autumn dishes. Eggplant is generally thought of as a summer vegetable, but by presenting it…

• Serves 1 · ¥100

• Cook time 10 min

Making Vegetables Delicious

We developed a new-sensation dashi using garlic with its odor suppressed, as part of "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine." Since…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,308

• Cook time 20 min

Warabi Mochi

Warabi mochi is a standard item at our restaurant. We knead it up using unrefined brown sugar, which has solid depth but a clean sweetness, and…

Small Eggplant Jelly

We slowly steep the grilled eggplant in a broth with a touch of consommé added, until it becomes soft and infused with flavor.

Fresh Fish and Sunomono

I was born and raised in Tokyo. After graduating high school I spent five years at a sushi restaurant in Shinbashi, and I joined a mikoshi…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 3 hr

Pike conger stuffed with sea urchin, lightly coated in kudzu starch

For 'Hamo Stuffed with Sea Urchin, Yoshino-Style,' the hamo (pike conger eel) is bone-scored, and sea urchin is stuffed into the scored meat to serve…

• Serves 1 · ¥455

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea bass rinsed in ice water, threeline grunt blanched with hot oil, tuna seared on the skin, live kuruma prawn

This is the sashimi course. Both the octopus arai and the sea bass arai taste refreshing served with wasabi and a plum-flesh vinegar-miso. For the…

'Seasonal colors on green bamboo': trough shell clam with vinegared myoga and egg-yolk vinegar, young ayu and baby corn wrapped in conger eel and deep-fried fragrant, Yanaka ginger deep-fried in tea leaves, baby octopus simmered in black tea, baby tiger prawn simmered in lemon tea, Japanese whiting grilled with egg yolk, baby turban shell simmered in black tea escargot-style, and two kinds of tea-rice chimaki

This is a piece of Japanese-cuisine development built around imported teas. The teas used are 'honey-fragrance black tea, green tea (Cuiluo), dark…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,338

• Cook time 2 hr

Tomato and soy milk kneaded tofu

The tomato's acidity is neutralized with soy milk, and tapioca starch gives it a soft texture.

Kombu soup bowl, made with salted kombu

From the theme of traditional heritage cuisine, this is a kombu soup bowl. It is a simple dish in which a delicious clear-soup stock is poured over…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 20 min

Sashimi-Style Salad

Breaking down the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "ingenuity in…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 40 min

Tomato Soba

Tomato Soba is a menu item I've served during this season for some time. Perhaps because of Karuizawa's local character, many guests enjoy Western…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

Glossy rice wrapped in egg yolk, liver nori senbei, turban shell congee dip

This time, with the main focus on preserving the rice's sweetness as much as possible, I decided to use the rice just as it is. I used Tsuyahime rice…

• Serves 1 · ¥295

• Cook time 30 min

Tomato and Onion Droplet

I devised this as the zatsuke (the first dish served at the start of a banquet) within a summer set menu. This is a chilled soup course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 2 hr

Corn pureed soup

This serves in place of the soup course (o-wan). The chicken tenderloin is soaked briefly in shio-kōji, and once the seasoning has taken, it is…

• Serves 5 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Smoked Char, Cured Prosciutto-Style

Continuing the proposal for using char across its hashiri, shun, and nagori stages, this represents the nagori, or end-of-season, use. This is served…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Whole Simmered Round Eggplant

From "Early-Autumn Eggplant Dishes, a Variety," this is a simmered dish. Whole Simmered Round Eggplant is a dish in which the round eggplant is…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Takikomi Gohan: Matsutake and Ginkgo Rice

Here I introduce a dish from our restaurant. 'Matsutake and ginkgo rice' is a dish I devised valuing the aroma that conveys the season, arriving the…