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Spanish mackerel grilled with cherry-blossom miso, baby turban shell grilled with sea urchin, cherry salmon and cheese spiral roll

This is the grilled course. For the cherry salmon and cheese naruto roll, we fillet the cherry salmon and slice it thin. We salt-cure it for about an…

Abalone tororo, pike conger roe and white melon kaminari-boshi, green plum sliced into candied rings, and more

This is an appetizer course. For the abalone tororo: fresh black abalone is cleaned, firmed up thoroughly with salt, then grated. It's combined with…

Hairy crab picked from the shell, kuruma prawn in areca-nut style, octopus tender-simmered with whiting, golden sushi, deep-fried stuffed red Manganji pepper, tube-cut mountain yam, rare immature salmon

As for the appetizer's tender-simmered octopus: normally I use the tender-simmering method that has been handed down since long ago, but this time I…

Butterfish grilled with shio-koji, broadbanded thornyhead grilled in citrus-soy marinade

For the grilled-fish course, the salt-koji-grilled dish uses a store-bought shio-koji called 'Unmaina.' It's good for overnight-pickling vegetables…

Bountiful harvest steamed dish

Conger eel two-piece roll with burdock, oil-simmered kuruma prawn, tender-simmered octopus, hijiki wrapped in fried tofu skin

This is a simmered dish. The tender-simmered octopus is made using the very first method I was ever taught. For the hijiki shinoda-maki, I used soft…

Young kuruma prawn set in consomme jelly, clam and colorful vegetable salad, fava bean, lily bulb, and foie gras wrung in cloth, flounder and rapeseed blossom in a silky egg-white veil, eel rolled in omelet, aigamo duck and asparagus terrine, Chinese yam dressed in sesame

Rather than making this purely a spring dish, we wanted to express the changing of the seasons. We didn't foreground cherry blossoms but used them…

Squid Genpei-yaki, Hamo Senbei, Persimmon-Shaped Carrot, Jellied Whelk, Sun-Dried Whiting, Chestnut Kamaboko, Mackerel Sushi, Salt-Roasted Ginkgo Nuts, Pacific Saury Yawata-Maki, Ayu Kombu Roll

For the appetizer squid genpei-yaki, golden cuttlefish is cut into a sashimi block and split into two sheets, then salted. The squid is then…

Blackthroat seaperch grilled with salt-fermented bonito viscera, young sweetfish grilled with new-season tea

This is a grilled course. For the blackthroat seaperch grilled with shuto: the fish is rinsed and cleaned, steeped in sake cut with water for about…

Shinshu salmon, a branded trout hybrid, with silky egg-yolk sauce, abalone and azuki duo mold, fruit tomato and horsehair crab

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. For the Shinshu salmon with silky egg-yolk sauce: the Shinshu salmon is prepared, salted heavily, cut into…

Sardine grilled with fermented mash, conger eel rolled with burdock, grilled pike conger with plum soy sauce

These are the grilled dishes. For the burdock in grilled dish two, conger eel yawata-maki, I finished it this time in a kinpira (sautéed…

Conger eel wrapped in soy milk skin, cherry-simmered mountain yam, butterbur

Yellowtail and daikon

For the buri daikon, the daikon is first parboiled and rehydrated, then placed on kombu. The yellowtail is marinated in sandō-wari and grilled. The…

Bamboo Shoot Grilled with Kinome; Diamond-Shaped Kamaboko; Clam and Rapeseed-Flower Sushi; Bamboo Shoot Simmered in Shirozake; Icefish, Bonbori-Style Grilled; Lily Bulb and Tachibana Citrus Chakin; Halfbeak, Cherry-Blossom Dried; Three-Colored Dango

Titled "Appetizers, Grilled and Simmered Dishes for Early Spring," this begins with the appetizer course. I prepared a single warm dish, a dish tied…

Tender-simmered raw sea cucumber, yellowtail kaburazushi, smoked aigamo duck, and more

This is the pre-course dish. For tender-simmered raw sea cucumber, the important thing is finishing the sea cucumber tender: we slowly bring it up in…

Molded whale terrine with mustard vinegar-miso sauce, savory shrimp sponge cake, conger eel and cucumber roll, two-color rice cracker, abalone and lotus root mannen-ni

First is the assorted small-dishes course. For the molded whale terrine with mustard vinegar-miso sauce, if you set it too firm, the umami is cut in…

Snow-view okara coating

Since the shrimp is live, it's fine if the inside is left about half-raw. Coat each prepared ingredient with okara (soy pulp) that has been…

Ōkura daikon (furofuki daikon and simmered pork belly)

Pure white in color, cylindrical in shape with the same thickness from the top of the root to the tip, and well-fleshed — these are its defining…

Horsehair crab shinjo

This is a clear-soup course. For the horsehair crab shinjo, the crab is steamed for thirty minutes as soon as it comes in, then picked from the…

Cherry Salmon with Smoked Egg-Yolk Coating, Conger Eel Tree-Ring Kinome-Yaki, Sweet-Simmered Baby Turban Shell

This is a grilled dish. For the cherry salmon with smoked egg-yolk coating, the salmon is marinated in a three-part equal-ratio marinade, grilled…

Cherry salmon grilled with cherry fragrance, butterbur simmered green, stretched dried salted salmon kidney, lily bulb Oribe-style chakin, fava beans simmered over direct flame

The lantern-shaped garnish sitting on top of the cherry salmon grilled with cherry fragrance is made by first boiling cod trimmings once, then…

Snow Crab Momiji-ae, Herring-Roe Wakame Pickled in Sake Lees, Pressed Mackerel Sushi, Fragrant Fried Matsutake, Salt-Steamed Abalone

First, the appetizer course. For the snow crab momiji-ae, snow crab and vegetables would normally be dressed together in a fragrant…

Shellfish dressed with salted sea cucumber entrails, spring vegetables with tomato gelée, pinecone-cut small abalone, shrimp castella, pressed chicken, matsukaze-style, rein-pattern sushi roll, herring roe, candied dried baby sardines, black soybean jelly terrine, celtuce stem marinated in saikyo miso, and rape blossoms pickled in mustard

For the celebratory dishes, we begin with shellfish dressed with konowata, salted sea cucumber entrails. Since konowata has a strong saltiness, I…

Matsukawa-style longtail red snapper, stone-wall-style yam bulbils, hijiki fish-paste dumpling, rising-sun-style mullet roe, iron-fan-style kuruma prawn, sweet potato simmered with lemon, and petal-shaped New Year mochi

Among the appetizers, the stone-wall-style yam bulbils are styled after the image of 'until moss grows upon it' from the Kimigayo (Japan's national…