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Green Pea Tofu

The soup course is finished mizore-style. Remove the clam from its shell, sake-sauté it, mince the innards together with it, and combine with dashi…

Pollock Roe and Daikon Spiral Roll in a Thin Egg Wrapper

Western Salmon Mousse

The salmon sheet wrapping the appetizer's Western-salmon mousse is a store-bought product; since it's made from raw salmon and has little flavor on…

Ise Lobster Flame-Flashed with Sake and Topped with Toasted Karasumi, Wagyu Loin Wrapped in Sweet Potato and Grilled with Apricot Soy Sauce, Tanba Chestnuts Simmered in Wine with Their Skins, Drizzled with Threaded Yamato Yam

For the Ise lobster, flame-flashed briefly with sake and topped with toasted karasumi, I flash it quickly with sake and top half of the flesh with…

Chrysanthemum Salad

The Shinshu salmon used in the chrysanthemum salad is a hybrid with no distinct male or female, crossed between kokanee (beni-masu) and brown trout…

Oboro-Style Broth, Winter Cod Hōsho Roll

For the oboro-style broth, I dry shaved kombu in a low oven or microwave without scorching it, then grind it into a powder. For the clear-soup…

Flounder with Okara Dressing

For the seared karasumi (bottarga) served as the crowning garnish on the flounder with okara dressing, my usual preference is to marinate the…

Tofu-skin-wrapped tricolor fry, smelt in five-color rice-cracker-crumb coating

In the fried course's tofu-skin-wrapped tricolor fry, the red one containing oyster shinjo, a fish-paste dumpling, is made by rinsing the oysters in…

Seared Live-Fish and Vegetable Salad, Truffle Dressing

For the grilled course's seared live-fish and vegetable salad, I added honeycomb tripe (hachinosu); vegetables alone lack punch, so I often use it…

Horse mackerel and lotus root wickerwork roll

For the vinegared course's horse mackerel and lotus root jakago-maki, the horse mackerel is pressed with kombu, worked into something like a minced…

Mantis shrimp wrapped in fried tofu pouch, eggplant fried and simmered, apios diced and nori-wrapped, kabocha squash, female flathead simmered in egg yolk

The apios in the simmered course's stone-wall-style, nori-wrapped apios is similar to hodo-imo (a Japanese wild groundnut), and is said to be highly…

Crispy Fried Curled Shrimp

Crispy-fried curled shrimp: drying it before frying crisps it more. Served with light ume salt; for fun we built a raft from sweet potato.

Flying-fish and kelp dashi broth

I covered it with itawarabi (a flat bracken-starch sheet) to express an indescribable hazy autumn moon. It is blended half and half with ago dashi…

Pufferfish and sweet shrimp roll

Grilled king crab and grilled vegetables

For the grilled king crab in this grilled course, you can also think of it as a substitute for a vinegared dish. Since the New Year is approaching, I…

Yuzu-Scented Grilled Sea Bream

For the yuzu-scented grilled sea bream, the sea bream is filleted into three pieces as usual, then marinated for about 20 minutes in a marinade made…

Small-pot style, Shōgoin turnip

For the simmered course, I incorporated ingredients with a slightly Chinese-style flavor, presented it small-pot style (konabe-jitate), and added a…

Grilled Abalone Liver, Spiny Lobster, Roast Aigamo Duck

Next, for the grilled course's grilled abalone liver: here, as usual, the abalone is cleaned, steamed with sake, and knife-cut. The liver is pressed…

Kelp teapot-steamed soup, conger eel stone-wall-style shinjo

The soup course is a kelp teapot-steamed soup. It is placed on a grill net and lightly seared table-side, so guests can enjoy it for the aroma of the…

Seasonal Offshore Fish

Red Eggplant with Wasabi Dressing

Small Sea Bream, Nankan-Style

The Nankan somen used in the simmered-bowl course is a specialty of this region — hand-stretched in the traditional way, it has a firm bite. It's a…

Miso soup blending white and red miso

Longtail red snapper rice steamed in a sake flask

For the rice course, I added two slices of pickles per guest. In honzen cuisine (formal banquet-style dining), odd numbers are the formal rule for…