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Sea Bream Milt Kan and Sake-Simmered Sea Bream and Bamboo Shoot

This makes use of sea bream milt. I myself love fishing, and sea bream is a special ingredient — good to catch and good to eat. Its seasons are…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Horsehair crab fried in the shell

This is the fried course. For the horsehair crab kōra-age, I mix together the picked meat and crab miso from steamed horsehair crab and pack it back…

• Serves 2 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Duck stuffed with asparagus, sansho-flavored; wagyu prosciutto vegetable rolls

This is a mid-course dish, designed to pair with a spicy, medium-bodied but powerful red wine. For the grilled duck stuffed with asparagus, sansho…

The blessings of Hyogo's five provinces -- Settsu bamboo shoot grilled in the style of Nada's five sake districts; Harima bamboo shoot in vinegar jelly flavored with its tender inner sheath; Tajima bamboo shoot with firefly squid and egg-yolk vinegar sauce; Tamba bamboo shoot, black bean, and mountain yam wrapped in yuba and deep-fried; Awaji bamboo shoot and needle-cut squid in sansho-leaf miso

We combined the wonderful spring ingredients of the five regions within Hyogo Prefecture -- Settsu, Harima, Tajima, Tamba, and Awaji -- each rich in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,420

• Cook time 2 days

Sukiyaki

This is the main tabletop dish. The meat for the sukiyaki is slaughtered by halal method at a meat-processing center. It's served with local seasonal…

Blackthroat seaperch, leaf-shaped teriyaki

When you fillet nodoguro, you're left with the head, the meat along the backbone (nakaochi), the tail, and the belly flesh. We lightly salt and steam…

Blackthroat seaperch, grilled in two autumn styles

Blackthroat seaperch grilled in two autumn styles: two kinds of dried fish. The Tosa-style dry cure is soy-based — we steep the fish for 35 to 40…

Sado Island raw oyster in amber jelly, persimmon shell presentation, kinu-otome taro boiled in its skin, nanban shrimp with fermented salted-roe dressing, smoked salmon

Bamboo Shoot Potage, and Other Dishes

For the grilled course, the yamame trout and butterbur miso gyoden-yaki is made using a mukimono knife (a thin blade used for decorative vegetable…

Sea Urchin and Abalone "Ichigo Steamed Sushi"

Sea urchin and abalone ichigo-ni is a traditional local dish of Aomori, and this time we've arranged it into a rice course. The sea urchin and…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 2 hr

Fermented trout sushi

We wanted to newly express the local dish masu no iizushi, handed down here, as a modern arrangement based on the cooking methods of Japanese…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 6 days

White miso broth, spring color layering, glossy simmered Tamba shiitake

This is a simmered-ingredients soup course timed to the opening of the cherry blossoms. By using three colors of gluten cake in the soup -- mugwort…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 30 min

Vegan simmered "pork belly", wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut white melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, and taro mustard

For "Giving Value to Vegan Cuisine within Japanese Cuisine," thinking of veganism as also tied to religious belief, we wanted people who can't even…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

Turban shell, grilled in the shell

This is a grilled dish designed with the presentation in mind. Turban shell tsubo-yaki (grilled in the shell) expresses old-fashioned "nostalgia."…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Tender-Simmered Spare Ribs

This is a seasonal side-dish course. For the tender-simmered spare ribs, thoroughly parboiling and rehydrating the ribs beforehand makes the later…

• ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

Grilled rice ball ochazuke

This is single dish course five: yaki onigiri ochazuke. I brush the grilling sauce onto the rice ball, press a shiso leaf onto it, and then grill it…

• ¥150

• Cook time 15 min

Conger Eel Sushi

These are the three sushi. At our restaurant, we always make a point of including sushi when serving the appetizer course, and it has gone over very…

Sea urchin in a smooth mashed dressing

This is small dish (2). For the uni kinton dressing, using whole-grain mustard in place of wasabi gives it a Western touch, making it a very…

Kaikyo Salmon Marinated in Shoyu-Koji

This is Kaikyo Salmon Marinated in Shoyu-Koji. Here I use kurome, a seaweed harvested only at this time of year on the Kunisaki Peninsula in Oita…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 15 min

Tuna, pen shell, salmon

This is the kassen course (sliced raw fish). The aspic base uses the clear liquid drawn from tomatoes. The tomatoes are frozen once, then brought…

Clam rikyu-ni and sake-steamed icefish in a mascarpone ponzu; kuruma prawn with seared bottarga gelée

For the clam Rikyu-ni and sake-steamed icefish in mascarpone ponzu, the clams are dropped into kombu-infused hot water without overcooking them, and…

Pufferfish shirako, grilled

This is the pairing course. For the butterbur-sprout tofu, the cleaned butterbur sprout is first deep-fried, drained without further cooking, and…

Winter vegetables with cod milt sauce

This is a warm small bowl. For the winter vegetables with cod milt sauce, we clean the cod's milt in salted water to remove any blood, then poach it…

Whelk and potato-noodle steamed dish

The "mosso-gai" in the mosso-gai and potato-noodle steamed dish is a shellfish — a type of whelk — caught from the Sanriku coast up through Hokkaido…