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Tilefish Grilled with Shuto-Koji, New Bamboo Shoot Grilled with Sake and Salt

For the tilefish grilled with shuto-koji, I use amazake (fermented sweet rice drink). To make the amazake, I cook rice porridge at a ratio of three…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Assorted Sprouting Spring Vegetables and Fresh Fish

This is a sashimi dish I devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the assorted sprouting spring vegetables and fresh fish, since…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

On an auspicious day (red sea bream flesh and fin)

From "expressing local heritage through cooking," this is the simmered course. Using the flesh and fin of red sea bream from Fukuoka, which boasts…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 50 min

Omi beef, sea urchin, and bamboo shoot roll, grilled, topped with the aroma of sansho flower

The harmony of aromas conducted on the iron griddle is outstanding. Ōmi beef with just the right marbling, bamboo shoot wrapped in the flavor of…

Herring roe and wasabi in tofu dressing, pine-needle skewers, cod grilled with saikyo miso glaze, a twist on namasu, amber-marinated quail egg

For the herring roe and wasabi shira-ae — herring roe is used in New Year's cooking for its meaning of "many children" — this time I bring in a hint…

Bamboo shoot 'tofu,' bamboo shoot simmered in miso, and sweet-savory simmered mallard duck

This is a dish that expresses local heritage. My workplace is an inn standing on the bank of the Tanigawa river, which flows down from Mount…

• Serves 1 · ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Hamaguri and Bamboo Shoot Takiawase

A stock taken from the hamaguri's fringe is combined with the soup used to simmer the bamboo shoot, and poured over at the finish. Hamaguri and…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo shoot in a boat-shaped presentation, shrimp crystal-coated in gelatin, broad bean simmered in syrup, rapeseed blossom topped with snowflake meringue and served with egg-yolk mustard, three-color cherry-blossom tofu, and spring baby turnip three-color cherry-blossom-viewing dumplings

For the appetizer course, the bamboo shoot funamori is bamboo shoot rehydrated in rice bran, then rinsed of the bran and shaped into a boat. For the…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Spring baby sea bream grilled with a rapeseed-blossom glaze, fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Cod and Turnip Roll, Milt Simmered with Egg Yolk

This is a simmered dish featuring the winter ingredient cod. For the cod and turnip roll, we used turnip, which becomes sweet and delicious once…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 1 hr

Wild Mountain Vegetable Sawani-Wan

You can enjoy two flavors in a single soup bowl. One is a flavor combining vegetables and asari clams. I roast butterbur sprouts and udo at 100°C for…

• Serves 1 · ¥580

• Cook time 30 min

Karasumi cured in shuto, new bamboo shoot with flowering sansho, and Ise lobster with sea cucumber roe

This is an appetizer meant to accompany sake. For the first dish, I serve something that conveys the season. Since guests are still drinking tea at…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,300

• Cook time 2 days

Clam shinjo

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Nanohana Espuma Sauce, Herring Umani, Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Pine-Cone-Cut Kuwai, Shogoin Daikon,

This is a dish paired with white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture. For the simmered Shogoin daikon, it is cut, peeled, boiled in rice-rinsing…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 2 hr

Cherry salmon and mugwort fu sandwich-grilled, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho-leaf soy sauce, beef loin saikyo-yaki

As part of the presentation, this grilled tray course expresses ‘a pleasant bitterness.’ It’s made up of a variety of ingredients — sakuramasu, beef…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,250

• Cook time 1 hr

Spring sea bream rolled with wild mountain vegetables, bracken, bamboo shoot, butterbur, hook-tip bracken, turnip greens, lily bulb, sansho leaf

After wrapping the sea bream with wild vegetables, it is wrapped in peeled daikon radish and steame…

Okowa roll

This is a reimagining of Gunma Prefecture's local cuisine. This is a steamed dish. Through a collaboration of Tsumagoi cabbage and one of Gunma's…

• Serves 1 · ¥490

• Cook time 3 hr

Yellowtail and Turnip Hot Pot

This is a use of the winter ingredient yellowtail. This is a hot pot dish. The yellowtail and turnip hot pot is a dish we always include in our…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,800

• Cook time 40 min

Surf clam julienned-vegetable clear broth

This is a clear soup devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the surf clam sawani soup, I control cost by adjusting the amount…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Sesame-milk tofu, kintsuba-style, butterbur miso, flame-seared sea urchin, grilled bamboo shoot, fried scallion, cherry-blossom petals

When making sesame tofu, soaking the sesame overnight in kombu dashi before blending it makes the sesame plump back up and brings out its flavor more…

Clear soup, 'Fukuoka Spring' (Ariake nori, bamboo shoot, and Muromi River icefish)

I am originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, and this expresses the original scenery of the spring dinner table from my childhood. This is a clear soup…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 1 hr

Fragrance of Peach Blossoms

This expresses Fukuoka through cooking. I am originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, and this expresses the original scenery of the spring dinner table…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled Spanish mackerel pot-cooked rice

We propose 24 pleasures across a single year. The cool, refreshing aroma of watercress stimulates the appetite.

Hida Beef and Seasonal Vegetable Sukiyaki, Topped with Uni — Kazahana Style

A fermented soybean sauce that brings these powerful ingredients together.