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Cherry-simmered baby octopus, flowering rapeseed steeped in mustard dressing, amago trout fried and marinated in sweet vinegar, bamboo shoot and squid in sansho-leaf miso, young sea bream sushi wrapped in cherry leaf, abalone simmered until tender, aigamo duck colored golden like kerria blossoms, fava beans simmered jade-green, and eel rolled with burdock root

This is the appetizer course. For the cherry-simmered baby octopus, the octopus is simmered in dashi, lifted out and drained, then steeped in the…

Wasabi and Cheese Dressing, Odawara Cassata

Two small-bowl dishes built around regional ingredients. For ‘Odawara Cassata,’ I took cassata, the traditional Sicilian sweet, and made it in the…

• Serves 1 · ¥360

• Cook time 2 days

Beltfish rolled around burdock, duck loin with mushroom dressing, whiting and bottarga sandwich, deep-fried, kuruma prawn and persimmon in tofu dressing with truffle, tender-simmered octopus, conger eel sushi

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. First, for the beltfish yawata-maki, I wrap beltfish around a core of kinpira-style braised burdock and grill it…

• ¥580

• Cook time 1 hr

Rein-patterned sushi roll, clams dressed lantern-style, five-color vegetable hina-arare, spring-mountain octopus, bamboo shoot and fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf, ostrich-fern fiddlehead rolled with sesame, and dawn-tinted lily bulb

And thinking of bamboo shoots in the spring hills and fields, we have the bamboo shoot and fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf. Cogomi rikyū-maki…

Splendid alfonsino grilled with sansho leaf, cherry-leaf sushi, mugwort tofu, baby octopus simmered to a cherry-pink hue, fava beans simmered jade green, rapeseed blossoms and icefish, lotus root castella, lily bulb dumplings

For the appetizer, the splendid alfonsino grilled with sansho leaf buds is prepared by cleaning the fish as usual, filleting it into fillets, salting…

Cherry-blossom Mineoka-style tofu, monkfish liver rolled into a straw-bundle shape, duck-wrapped Kyoto garland chrysanthemum roll, cherry sea bream kombu-cured sushi wrapped kosode-sleeve style, kuruma prawn in a firewood-bundle presentation, and sprout-wrapped sea bream roe

A seasonal dish. This time the ankimo tsuto-roll is wrapped in paprika for a splash of color. For the duck-wrapped kyo-shungiku roll, the duck is…

Garland chrysanthemum greens rolled in fresh tofu skin, Okinawan peanut tofu, frozen Okinawan firm tofu with shiso pesto, five-ingredient soy pulp, miso-marinated fried tofu pouch, pork rib cartilage with white vinegar sauce, wood-ear mushroom quick-simmered and tossed with soy pulp, thick fried tofu topped with meat miso, chestnut tofu, and eel rolled in flat tofu skin

Jimami tofu has a faint peanut aroma and a chewy texture, and can be enjoyed much like sesame tofu. For the frozen shima-dofu with shiso pesto…

• ¥700

• Cook time 2 hr

New lotus root kinpira, red and green Manganji peppers fried and dashi-steeped, octopus miso-cured and armor-style grilled

• ¥970

• Cook time 1 hr

Grilled Okinawan peanut tofu

I pursued the pleasure of the sound of chewing. The grilled peanut tofu is crisp on the outside and molten within, and the island-banana fritter also…

Shrimp and baby bamboo shoots grilled in hōjicha, pen shell with young greens, stream trout, young sweetfish simmered matsumae-style, beef in cherry-leaf wrap, matcha tofu

This is an appetizer course. For the halfbeak in white-vinegar dressing, the tofu is scalded in kōfuki-cha and drained. Kōfuki-cha is a fermented tea…

Turnip cup with monkfish liver and carrot in beef-shank dashi sauce, beef tendon and persimmon namasu, inner thigh beef cured in squid shiokara, seared outer thigh beef with crab miso sauce, fried beef shank coated in maitake mushroom and bottarga, oysters wrapped in beef belly

Since the toast at the start of the meal is often beer or chilled sake even in winter, I wanted something warm that lets you feel the umami. For the…

• ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Grilled Female Snow Crab with Egg-Miso

The grilled female snow crab with egg-miso is a standard on our menu — it eats well and looks good, so during the season we serve it often as a…

• ¥797

• Cook time 20 min

Abalone shiokara, fish roe Matsumae-style pickle, bottarga, squid shiokara variation, salted sea urchin, konowata

Abalone shiokara is a delicacy I learned from the first head chef I trained under. I make it by jarring live abalone liver. It has a distinctive…

• ¥1,500

Shinano yukimasu ogawa roll wrapped in nozawana, rapeseed blossom-apple-iwana oyako koji dressing, Shinshu beef and chrysanthemum-greens checkerboard hakusen-age, three-colored egg terrine with cherry blossoms, miso-marinated fuki wrapped tōji-style in yuba and grilled, runner bean awayuki terrine, leaf wasabi and yam sushi

Let's begin with the appetizers. For the Shinano yukimasu ogawa roll wrapped in nozawana, ogawa is normally made using minced squid or white fish…

Tomato, cheese, and baby sardine salad

Under the theme of heritage dishes. I previously introduced "chirimen sansho simmer," and this is a dish that makes use of it. Here it is finished…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 15 min

Tawara-shaped shrimp taro, eel kombu roll, apple and egg-batter grill, bottarga rusk, abalone, chicken in fan shape, twist-cut konjac, salmon cut in plum-blossom shape, grilled sea cucumber dressed with vinegar served in a yuzu cup, pine nut kinton, stem lettuce in mustard-koji pickle

Starting with the appetizers. In the mallet-shaped vessel I've arranged a "pine-bamboo-plum" motif. There's the tawara-shaped ebi-imo taro, chicken…

Green pea mousse, grilled banana with a miso glaze, water shield soda, threeline grunt kombu-cured mountain-vegetable salad, horse mackerel and celeriac terrine

This is the appetizer course. For the fresh greenery mousse, 100 g of green-pea paste, 30 g of dashi, and 25 g of fresh cream whipped to about 85…

Bell pepper and lily bulb terrine, bottarga and daikon stuffed into dried persimmon, grilled eel sushi, arrowhead bulb matsukaze, millet wheat-gluten cake glazed with sweet miso, flounder kombu roll

These are the appetizers. For the bell pepper and lily bulb terrine, you must let the mixture of yellow bell pepper and lily bulb cool completely…

Matsutake mushroom simmered shigure-style, mackerel checkerboard pressed sushi, lily bulb with chrysanthemum fragrance, sweetfish grilled with its own roe, yam bulbils in a diced coating, mustard-stuffed lotus root, mochi and ginkgo nuts tossed with sea urchin

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

Jellied pufferfish, smoked sea bream rolled in a sweet kombu sheet, mackerel pressed sushi, deep-fried soft-shell shrimp, eggplant with salted fish innards, kosode-style sweet rolled omelet, and chrysanthemum greens blanched and dressed

This is an appetizer course. For the jellied pufferfish, pufferfish bones and trimmings are simmered down in sake and a large amount of water. Before…

• ¥470

• Cook time 2 hr

Smoked Swimming Crab

The restaurant where I work is centered on shellfish and crustaceans, and our work smoking seafood has a good reputation, so I thought about giving…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 30 min

Small turban shell dressed with sansho leaf, egg-filled baby octopus simmered to a cherry-pink hue, eel-filled sweet rolled omelet, cherry-blossom carrot, small abalone simmered Kōshū-style in wine, caviar-filled shrimp, icefish grilled with egg yolk, firefly squid deep-fried in a nori coating, young sea bream fried and marinated in sweet vinegar, and cherry-blossom lotus root

An appetizer course — all of these are dishes actually served at the restaurant. For the duck coated in golden egg yolk, named for the yamabuki…

Kuruma prawn in a bottarga crystal jelly, steamed abalone with sansho-leaf miso, halfbeak curled bracken-style, octopus fermented sushi wrapped in domyoji rice, sake-lees tofu-dressed salad, fava bean, pickled plum, and cheese, three-color mugwort wheat gluten rolled around burdock

Starting with the appetizers. For the kuruma prawn in karasumi crystal jelly, the prawn goes into water salted heavily enough that it seems it won't…