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Steamed Cod Rice, Cold-Smoked Cod, Cod Cracker

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. The appetizer is designed to feel like a single course in itself. As a proposal for using…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Colorful assortment of freshly sliced fish

The colors of freshly sliced fish were devised from the idea that eating sashimi with soy sauce alone gets monotonous, and that it would be more…

• ¥1,100

• Cook time 40 min

Vegetable achara pickle with Chinese yam, baby cucumber, Fushimi pepper, Corinky squash, dried daikon, frozen konjac, firm tofu, tomato cup, scallion sprouts, and olive oil and white vinegar

Freezing the konnyaku once creates air pockets inside it, making it easier for the seasoning to soak in and giving it a pleasantly popping texture in…

Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Simmered Sea Bream Roe, Octopus Sakura-ni

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥290

• Cook time 2 hr

Dashing Ichimatsu-Pattern Box Sushi

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties Building excitement for the moment the lid is lifted Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 20 min

Crab Yoro-age, Ebi-imo Hakusen-age, Daikoku Shimeji Egg-Yolk Fry, Paprika Su-age

From dishes paired with white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture, this is a fried dish. For the yam-bound crab deep-fry, grated mountain yam is…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 30 min

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing

Soba and Konjac in Vinegared Miso Dressing uses raw konjac tuber. If you blend it into a paste with the skin left on, you get black konjac; if you…

Swimming crab (gazami) mold

This is the steamed dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. For Gazami Mold — swimming crab caught in Tosa Bay is called 'gazami' in Kochi Prefecture. I…

• Serves 1 · ¥870

• Cook time 1 hr

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

Swimming crab amber aspic, Chinese razor clam wine-steamed with nori sauce, mantis shrimp aromatic grill, Ariake eel-goby confit, ganba pufferfish overnight-dried with seasoning sauce, Ariake Sea red jellyfish in Western-style sake-fragrant dressing, seasonal garnish

First, the appetizer course. As dishes to accompany sake from the Ariake area, several pieces carry fairly strong flavors and aromas, making this a…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 3 hr

Matsutake and pike conger grilled with fragrant onion soy

This is the grilled course. For the matsutake and hamo grilled with fragrant onion soy, we first make an onion soy sauce and baste the fish with it…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail Sake-Lees Soup, Yellowtail Turnip Sushi

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. When it comes to winter ingredients, there is also fugu and cod, but we chose yellowtail, which is…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Yellowtail and Turnip Sushi, Cold-Smoked Yellowtail and Monkfish Liver Monaka

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is the hashi-hajime, the first course eaten with chopsticks. For the yellowtail and turnip…

• Serves 2 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 weeks

Ise lobster pine-nut grill, milt cream bake

This makes use of true cod milt at its very first appearance of the season (hashiri). Cod testes are considered second in luxury only to tiger…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled Char with Shincha, Shirobai Liver Grill, and Okaki-Crumb Deep-Fried River Shrimp

This is a proposal for using char across its first-of-season, peak-season, and end-of-season stages. This time it is a dish that makes use of char in…

• Serves 1 · ¥790

• Cook time 1 hr

King crab shinjo napa cabbage roll, simmered, with snow-ring lotus root, twisted colorful vegetables, garland chrysanthemum sauce, and bok choy

As an accompaniment we've added yukiwa-cut lotus root; fewer chefs take the time to do this kind of decorative knifework these days, so we decided to…

Deep-fried salt-dried tilefish with fermented bonito innards sauce

For this additional course, designed with presentation in mind, I expressed ‘warmth.’ To bring out warmth at its best, I think nothing beats a…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 30 min

Ichigo-ni rice in hot broth

This is the hot-water course served near the end of the meal. Since this book comes out in May, it’s a good time of year to use a bronze soup vessel…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Akita Prefecture "Yuri Beef Roast" with Iburigakko Sauce

The theme is "Reimagined Local Cuisine" — a creative reworking of the standard way local cuisine is typically served. This is an additional course…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,700

• Cook time 30 min

(Opening hassun) Gion Festival

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 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Winter melon and freeze-dried tofu naruto roll, pork belly steamed with salt and lemon

This is an introduction to the simmered assortment from the summer course. For the winter melon and freeze-dried tofu naruto-maki, the winter melon…

• Serves 3 · ¥300

• Cook time 40 min