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Pinecone-scored squid, cut-bamboo early butterbur, syrup-simmered plumped plum, sprouted arrowhead bulb, ten-thousand-year simmered burdock, calm-wave-cut lily bulb, snow-capped herring roe, turnip namasu, steeped early bracken fern, and Hakata-style sweet bean jelly

Kuizumi is osechi, New Year's food. At New Year, packing lots of dishes into tiered lacquer boxes for the family to eat, and also to serve when…

Grilled Kinmedai Steeped in Dashi

This is a simmered dish. For the grilled splendid alfonsino steeped in dashi, the fish is prepped, grilled until about seventy to eighty percent…

Diamond-shaped shinjo, glazed simmered clams, needle-cut udo, needle-cut carrot

Overseas guests tend to enjoy kamaboko-style fish-paste products, so we added the diamond-shaped fish-paste dumpling alongside. This is the warm-dish…

Tilefish, Ōmi konnyaku, and kombu-cured rapeseed blossom

For the guji, Ōmi konnyaku, and rapeseed-blossom kombu-cured dish: normally the skin is removed when kombu-curing tilefish (guji), but since the area…

Lotus-root dumpling

Renkon manju is served as part of a simmered assortment course, or arranged as a single item for the appetizer course. Normally I shape one serving…

Matsuwa mackerel and shiitake sandwich-grilled with yuzu miso, kettle-boiled shrimp grilled with sesame salt, chicken tenderloin rolled with burdock, chrysanthemum-cut yam grilled with golden egg yolk, chrysanthemum-leaf-cut yam grilled with uni

For the grilled fish course's Matsuwa mackerel and shiitake sandwich-grilled dish, mackerel landed at Matsuwa fishing port is famous under the…

Chinese yam grilled Shinshu-style

For the grilled course's nagaimo grilled Shinshu-style: marinate the nagaimo in miso for about two days and grill it, but miso alone makes it too…

Spanish mackerel grilled with a rapeseed-blossom egg topping, sea urchin and tortoiseshell egg grilled in paper

This is the grilled course. For the sawara nataneyaki, the sauce made from shirozake, a sweet white rice liquor, balances its sweetness with the…

Wagyu Grilled with Tare-Miso

This is the simmered-dish course. The finale is meat. Everyone loves meat, so you need to include meat somewhere in the course. For the wagyu grilled…

Steamed Rice with Simmered Clam, Persimmon Momiji-Age, Duck and Tomato Stew, Pacific Saury Yawata-Maki

For the steamed rice with simmered clam, we quickly simmer clams in a sweet-savory sauce, mix them with steamed glutinous rice and salmon roe, and…

Spiny lobster grilled with golden egg yolk, sakura mochi, dimpled lily bulb, saikyo-miso-cured rapeseed blossom, butterbur and potato, mustard-pickled udo, bamboo shoot and sansho-leaf sushi, plum-blossom-cut burdock, bamboo-cut stem lettuce, and broad beans simmered to a vivid green

For the appetizer course, since I have a fondness for tableware, I wanted to make use of this large platter to start with. Today I made the Ise…

Eel and Vegetables in Vinegar Marinade

The vinegared dish is eel and vegetables in vinegar marinade. I hear eel shops were swamped this past summer, but in washoku, eel's true season is…

Kinki rockfish, celebratory grill; monkfish liver pressed in layers; fugu in savory jelly; king crab, yellow chrysanthemum and komatsuna blanched in dashi; baked yuzu cup; winter moroko, simmered and marinated; azuki bean and lotus root; plum-blossom lily bulb; three-color kinpira; grilled burdock with young sansho leaves; accordion-cut kombu

This is the yaki-hassun — a grilled hassun assortment, written with celebratory kanji. For the Winter Moroko, Simmered and Marinated, I use moroko (a…

Kuruma prawn hōnen-age, tilefish matsukasa-age, maple-leaf ginkgo

This is the deep-fried course. For the tilefish matsukasa-age — a pine-cone style deep-fry — the tilefish is cut into pieces with the scales left on…

Kinmedai Sushi, Eel Hakata-Style, Ise Spiny Lobster with Roe Dressing, Fresh-Green Salad

This is the appetizers course. For the splendid alfonsino sushi, the fish is filleted into three, butterflied open, salted, and cured in vinegar…

Hairy Crab with Egg-Yolk Cream; Nagaimo and Motte-giku in Vinegar; Jellied Fugu; Bottarga; Apple-Salmon Roll

This is the appetizer course. For the hairy crab with egg-yolk cream, I arrange asparagus and hairy crab and pour over a sauce made in the manner of…

Thin-sliced pufferfish sashimi

For the traditional version, the fugu is arranged in a chrysanthemum-ball shape. For the modern version, we quickly sear the skin and slice it thin…

Okoze suppon-style soup, deep-fried lotus root manju

Butterfish Grilled in Saikyo Miso, Matsutake Wrapped in Wagyu Loin, Chrysanthemum-Cut Turnip, Chestnuts Simmered in Syrup

Salmon roe with grated daikon and sablefish-carrot sandwich, rein-twist sushi, turban shell tossed with chrysanthemum petals, salt-grilled crossbred duck, salt-roasted new-season ginkgo nuts, new-season chestnuts simmered in a savory broth, white melon cut in a ginkgo-leaf motif and kombu-cured, Ishikawa taro steamed in its skin

This is the celebratory course. Meiji Jingu Shrine, Jingu Gaien, and the Meiji Memorial Hall are together known as the "All Jingu." One of the three…

Late-season autumn-run salmon, spiral deep-fry, shrimp-shaped taro, roasted-grain-flour deep-fry

There are two deep-fried dishes, and both have already been seasoned to bring out their own true flavor, so they're delicious to enjoy just as they…

Seared Wagyu Fillet

The aromatic sauce for the grilled dish uses apple and orange, but any seasonal citrus can be used in place of the orange. When serving the seared…

Botan shrimp, Yachimata peanuts smoked over sawdust, red Fushimi chili pepper, kabosu citrus shell, crab and chrysanthemum greens blanched and dressed, Tomisato baby taro grilled with fermented bonito innards, roe-bearing mantis shrimp wrapped in wakame, saffron cod roe ginger-soy simmered, maple-red spicy cod roe terrine, pufferfish fin in a sweet-vinegar marinade, baby arrowhead bulb, ginkgo-leaf-shaped sweet potato confection, salted ginkgo nuts

Our guests are mostly somewhat older women visiting on pilgrimage during the day, and business parties such as client entertaining in the evening…

Eel Jade Roll

This is a simmered course. For the grilled shark fin: it is combined with shang tang (a rich Chinese stock), dried shiitake, and dried scallops, then…