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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…

Roe-bearing sweetfish, sweet soy-simmered

Salt-Boiled Dōman-Gani

Found in a renowned lake, the Doman mud crab is said to be a phantom crab; its official name is the serrated mud crab. It's characterized by firm…

Sea bream, clam, and shamo chicken triple-stock tsukemen in a mini hot pot

A repeat-visit dish for guests in their twenties and thirties A tsukemen-style twist on a rich, full-bodied broth Given this theme, I first thought…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Minami-Uonuma-grown: Koshihikari white and brown rice, local pork sake-lees soup, Okukuji egg, shaved bonito flakes, house-made dashi soy sauce

This is from our breakfast menu. We're particular about serving the rice freshly cooked. Going forward, watching the timing and how guests respond…

• Serves 1 · ¥165

• Cook time 20 min

Female snow crab pot-cooked rice

This is something of a signature dish at our restaurant: the trick is that when you open the pot, charcoal and kobako crab appear, to guests'…

• Serves 12 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 40 min

New Soba-Gaki, Okaya Eel Tree-Ring Roll

When people think of Nagano, I imagine many picture soba. This time, I kneaded fresh new-crop buckwheat flour to bring out a chewy, mochi-like…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Mineoka-style chestnut purée, pear poached in wine

This is the sweets course, Mineoka-style chestnut puree. We strain and use any candied chestnuts or chestnuts simmered in their skins that broke…

Quail Shinjo

For the clear-soup course, the quail shinjo, we start by making the niyose (a simmered-and-set preparation). We combine 60% of the twice-ground quail…

Wind-Dried Sasagarei

By soaking sasagarei, which comes into season in winter, in salted water and then wind-drying it for about half a day, this becomes a dish where just…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Vegan kakuni (wave-cut konjac, accordion-cut shiro-uri melon, green taro stem, fan-cut carrot, potato mustard)

Thinking of veganism as also a matter of religion, I wanted guests to be able to taste the best qualities of animal-derived ingredients through a…

• Serves 6 · ¥80

• Cook time 50 min

Wild Boar Soup with Fresh Soba-Sashi Style

Wild boar soup with fresh soba-sashi is a comforting dish where you can fully enjoy the umami of the boar's fat, dissolved into the broth, and the…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,397

• Cook time 40 min

Hand-Cut Soba Jibu-ni

This is the shokuji, the rice or noodle course. For Hand-Cut Soba Jibu-ni, a soba take on jibu-ni, the Kanazawa-style simmered dish, rather than…

• Serves 1 · ¥300

• Cook time 5 min

Wild Boar and Vegetables, Dengaku-Style

For Wild Boar and Vegetables, Dengaku-Style, I use wild boar belly with good marbling of fat. Wild boar stays in season through this period, and I…

• Serves 1 · ¥634

• Cook time 4 hr

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu, Zenmaru Shiitake, Scallion Sprouts, Sudachi

Tiger fugu, which is normally enjoyed with the flavor of salt or soy sauce, we serve marinated in shuto (fermented salted bonito innards) broth and…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 30 min

Autumn Salmon, Autumn-Brocade Rice Cream Croquette

This is a fried dish. The autumn salmon and autumn-brocade rice cream croquette uses salmon, soy milk skin, and white sauce. Since we run an inn, we…

• Serves 30 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Hatoshi with Baby Tiger Prawn

This is the fried course. As for the hatoshi with baby tiger prawn, I'm originally from Nagasaki, and hatoshi is a dish that came from China — it's…

Lily bulb steamed bun, halfbeak chrysanthemum sushi, chrysanthemum-carved turnip, tubular chrysanthemum cheese, eel baked in pastry

In place of a standard appetizer course, I made everything in a single chrysanthemum theme, with every dish styled to resemble a chrysanthemum. For…

Ginkgo tofu

Sailfin sandfish, kombu-cured

This is a palate-settling course themed around Akita Prefecture's local cuisine. For the Sailfin Sandfish Kombu-Cured, I wanted people to enjoy every…

• Serves 1 · ¥520

• Cook time 12 hr

Kenchin-style grilled beltfish sandwich, Ashigara beef roast beef, spinach leaf bread, ball arrangement

This is a grilled seasonal assortment course. For the mixed-vegetable-filled grilled beltfish sandwich, tofu and raw white fish paste are combined…

• Serves 10 · ¥350

• Cook time 20 min

Making Vegetables Delicious

Since vegan cooking can only use vegetables, and that leaves the flavor feeling somewhat lacking, I thought about whether I could perfect it starting…

• Serves 4 · ¥1,208

• Cook time 20 min

Turnip in grated-daikon broth: seared tilefish, matsutake with grilled leaf-shaped mountain yam, maple-leaf-cut carrot, and Edona greens; garnish of pine-needle-cut yuzu

This time, we learned about "Gowan" from Master Teiichi Hiratsuka (Kappoya Mitsuto). We will focus on "Kabushosuri" (a type of sushi rice).