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Fresh greens salad, Manila clams, beach silvertop, sea grapes, savory vinegar jelly, octopus rinsed in cold water with egg yolk and salted bonito innards, abalone steamed with sake, white melon kombu-cured and stuffed with new water shield, Manganji pepper with chicken miso

From the shunsai, a seasonal-color course. For the fresh greens salad, green coloring paste is added to the tofu dressing. Manila clams steamed with…

• ¥780

• Cook time 3 hr

Grilled carp with butterbur miso, arrow-fletched mustard lotus root, John Dory two-layer fish-paste dumpling, nemagari bamboo shoot grilled with sansho bud, iris-shaped Shadow Queen potato and cream terrine

This is the grilled course. For the grilled carp with butterbur miso, I take a carp fillet, lightly salt it, score the bones, and deep-fry it plain…

• ¥450

• Cook time 6 hr

Early-summer tofu, seared whiting

This is a clear-soup course. For the Satsuki tofu, I made it as a mugwort tofu. I worked seven or eight parts kombu dashi with one part pure white…

• ¥180

• Cook time 1 hr

Blended-dashi clear soup: autumn-brocade tilefish and turnip, habutae-steamed; matsutake with sprouted scallion; garnish of hail-cut yuzu

When folding the grated turnip into the meringue, it's important not to overmix — I think it's best to fold it in loosely, leaving the fluffy texture…

Good-Fortune Cod Milt Nuta in a Yuzu Shell, Monkfish Liver and Celtuce Kinuta-Maki, Yorou Smoked Salmon Hakata-Style, Fugu Cracker, Sake-Grilled Squid Bonbori-Style

This is the seasonal course. The good-fortune cod milt vinegared-miso dressing served in a yuzu shell uses seven ingredients, following the tradition…

Deep-fried young sweetfish in new-tea batter, sea urchin deep-fried hosho-style

This is a fried dish course. For the young sweetfish in new tea batter, since new tea (shincha) comes out in May, I grind the new tea leaves and…

• ¥600

• Cook time 15 min

Clear-soup style (cod milt tofu, snow crab, rock tripe, slender daikon, knotted yuzu peel)

This time, we learned about "Gowan" from Master Teiichi Hiratsuka (Kappo Ya Mitsuto). We will be focusing on "cod milt Tofu".

Lettuce, celery, and tomato Hakata-roll, bracken fern and prosciutto wrapped in bamboo paper, shark fin in savory jelly

This is a vinegared dish course. For the lettuce, celery, and tomato hakata-roll, I pass the lettuce through oil, then through hot water, and drop it…

• ¥280

• Cook time 1 hr

Turnip in grated-daikon broth: seared tilefish, matsutake with grilled leaf-shaped mountain yam, maple-leaf-cut carrot, and Edona greens; garnish of pine-needle-cut yuzu

This time, we learned about "Gowan" from Master Teiichi Hiratsuka (Kappoya Mitsuto). We will focus on "Kabushosuri" (a type of sushi rice).

Cod milt pureed soup, winter-solstice pumpkin dumplings, snow-ring-cut daikon, stem lettuce, straight-cut yuzu peel

As for the red beans set into the pumpkin shiratama dumplings, season them with the minimum amount of sugar so the sweetness doesn't stand out. To…

Loach and young burdock simmered with sansho pepper, simmered rolled shrimp, golden-simmered new potatoes, udo simmered with bonito flakes

This is a simmered dish course. For the loach and young burdock simmered Arima-style, I split larger loach open and quick-blanch the skin side in…

• ¥520

• Cook time 2 hr

Oyster Kuzu-Set Chakin

The clear-soup course is oyster kuzu-set chakin. Fresh oysters are shucked and rubbed clean with grated daikon, then quickly blanched for about five…

Yellowtail and Daikon Thousand-Layer Roll, King Crab Golden Simmer, Ebi-Imo Simmered in Broth

This is the simmered course. The yellowtail-and-daikon thousand-layer roll was inspired by a colleague from Hokuriku I once worked under, who used to…

Rolled Prawn in Lemon Jelly, Wakasagi Pickled in Pomegranate Vinegar

This is the vinegared course. For the rolled prawn in lemon jelly, small kuruma prawns are skewered straight with a bamboo pick to keep them from…

Tilefish Grilled Under Snow, Wagyu Grilled with Charred Soy Sauce

This is the grilled course. In keeping with the dish's name, I arranged a snow scene on the plate. For the wagyu grilled with charred soy sauce, Hida…