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Black-skinned kabocha squash simmered with lemon, fat greenling and sea urchin simmered together, new burdock root filled with sakura-shrimp shinjo, small eggplant Dutch-style simmered

This dish expresses Japanese cuisine through dark tea (Fu brick tea). For reference, Fu brick tea, 50 g: ¥1,620. This is an assortment of separately…

• Serves 1 · ¥489.5

• Cook time 1 hr

Isaki Yawata-Maki

The threeline grunt yawata-maki, a roll named for Yawata and traditionally wrapped around burdock root, uses the trim left over from slicing sashimi…

• ¥570

• Cook time 1 hr

Kabocha Tofu

Low-Temperature Roasted Wagyu with Foie Gras

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: roast wagyu Wanting to seek out the long-transmitted dishes of Fukushima and Kōriyama and…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,056

• Cook time 5 hr

Floating Venison, Roast Venison

As for Floating Venison, in Karuizawa where I work, honshu deer are culled as harmful wildlife, but out of sympathy with those involved who don't…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 2 hr

Pike conger karaage

This is the prep work for hamo. At my restaurant we process hamo by boiling it whole, so when I source hamo, I ask the supplier not to remove the…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 5 min

King crab and lotus root manju, chrysanthemum-cut daikon in sake-lees pickle, millet wheat gluten Dutch-style simmered, bamboo-leaf-cut kabocha

This time, on 'simmered dishes,' I learned from technical director Saito (Nihon Ryōri Kinari). This time I take up 'renkon manju.'

Eel and Tofu, Tender-Simmered Octopus, Stone-Wall-Pattern Baby Taro Chakin, Kabocha Squash Stuffed with Tube-Cut Burdock

This is a simmered dish. Eel and tofu layers grilled eel kabayaki with tofu alone, without adding any vegetables.

• ¥400

• Cook time 2 hr

Shrimp, Sea Urchin, and Okra Terrine, Tender-Simmered Abalone, Simmered Kabocha Squash, Shiitake Mushroom, Winter Melon Simmered in Soup

This is a chilled simmered dish. Wanting to offer something refreshing, I set shrimp, sea urchin, and okra together into a terrine. For the…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Hassun, Shojin Tempura, Shojin Sushi

For the yuba dengaku, I placed sakura-miso — sweet miso kneaded with sugar — on top of opened yuba sheets. For the grilled Chinese yam with plum…

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…

Cloudy duck nanban

Even a veteran master chef can encounter dishes whose cooking method is impossible to grasp just by hearing about it or seeing it once. This Pro's…

Venison Corned Beef

Crop damage from deer and wild boar is a problem nationwide. I devised a summery dish that lets people enjoy venison, sourcing it this time from…

Temari Kisu, Kisu Nishiki-Maki, and Seared Kisu in Ume Vinegar Marinade

For temari kisu (Japanese whiting), I cut kombu-cured kisu into fine strips — with an eye to how easily chopsticks can pick it apart — and layer them…

• ¥520

• Cook time 50 min

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Duck yawata-maki, shrimp simmered shiba-ni style, taro and sea bream miso dengaku, kabocha squash, egg-yolk glaze-grilled squid

Under the theme "Relief from the Fierce Summer Heat," I wanted to offer a moment during the summer season where guests could forget the heat. There…

• Serves 1 · ¥180

• Cook time 30 min

Berkshire pork steamed with shio-koji

This is a takiawase, an assortment of separately simmered ingredients. For the baby taro simmered in koji and pan-rolled: as the stock in the pot…

Roasted genmaicha tofu, baby octopus simmered cherry-style, cherry-leaf-green kabocha squash, duck simmered with egg yolk, butterbur simmered green

As for the roasted genmaicha tofu, tofu is mostly made up of water, but I think that, turned to advantage, it's an ingredient rich in possible…

Wheel-Shaped Wheat Gluten and Nanban Shrimp Shinjo, Hakata-Style

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: simmered wheel-shaped wheat gluten Looking back on the history of dishes that have been…

• Serves 4 · ¥298.6

• Cook time 1 hr

White tilefish, rolled and cut into mallet-shaped rounds, local alfonsino in a cloth-wrung purse shape

This is the simmered assortment course. As for the okitsudai kinuta-maki, okitsudai refers to white tilefish. This time, adding the extra step of…

• ¥840

• Cook time 2 hr

Milt Persimmon Roll, Butterbur Tossed with Soy Milk Skin, Tofu-Dressed Salad

This is a seasonal assortment course. For the milt persimmon roll, we combine 500 g of fish paste, 200 g of milt, one egg white, and seven shaku of…

• ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Lotus Root Shinjo

This is the simmered-dish course. As for the lotus root shinjo, in-season lotus root, when left to rest until late autumn, has its starch convert…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 1 hr

Mock kabayaki, novelty pumpkin, mock abalone shiitake, shojin egg, mustard lotus root

For the mock kabayaki, I spread tofu paste flat on nori, wrap it in a single turn of yuba, and grill it with a glaze while sprinkling on sansho…

• ¥30

• Cook time 20 min

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell

This is a simmered dish built around the presentation. Spiny lobster simmered in its own shell was given a bold, high-impact plating under the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 1 hr