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Sashimi-Style Salad

Breaking down the theme of "ways to serve seafood," I prepared two concepts. One is "protecting the ocean environment." The other is "ingenuity in…

• Serves 1 · ¥850

• Cook time 40 min

Amazake, Ramune Mizu-Yōkan with Mango and White Wine Jelly

In the old days, dessert too was called a "water sweet," and melon and strawberries were an acceptable choice, but that's no longer acceptable today…

• Serves 1 · ¥480

• Cook time 3 hr

Champion Wagyu Fillet Steak and Abalone Steak

This is a grilled dish. As a child, I have a memory of burning dried branches in a hōroku — an earthenware roasting dish — during the fire that sends…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,300

• Cook time 2 hr

Ice Block Presentation

For the palate-refreshing mid-meal course, I made it into an ice-block presentation. This time I laid down bamboo leaves and served sudachi sōmen…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• Cook time 1 hr

Fresh Fish and Sunomono

I was born and raised in Tokyo. After graduating high school I spent five years at a sushi restaurant in Shinbashi, and I joined a mikoshi…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 3 hr

(Opening hassun) Gion Festival

I was born and raised in Tokyo. After graduating high school I spent five years at a sushi restaurant in Shinbashi, and I joined a mikoshi…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Smoked Char, Cured Prosciutto-Style

Continuing the proposal for using char across its hashiri, shun, and nagori stages, this represents the nagori, or end-of-season, use. This is served…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Grilled Char with Shincha, Shirobai Liver Grill, and Okaki-Crumb Deep-Fried River Shrimp

This is a proposal for using char across its first-of-season, peak-season, and end-of-season stages. This time it is a dish that makes use of char in…

• Serves 1 · ¥790

• Cook time 1 hr

Ōiwana Ginjō-Arai, Stuffed Fruit Tomato

This dish makes use of char in season. What we use here is large char — the difference from regular char is the growing period and size: large char…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,150

• Cook time 1 hr

Blended Miso Broth, Char Wrapped in Lotus Root

My workplace is in Karuizawa, Nagano, so I think of the four seasons of Shinshu's clear mountain streams as four kinds of warmth, and I used char…

• Serves 1 · ¥780

• Cook time 40 min

Sea Bream Grilled with Western Vegetables

This is an introduction to a grilled dish using sea bream. For the sea bream grilled with Western vegetables, since sea bream past its season after…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,050

• Cook time 30 min

Hanabira Daikon Platter

For this development, I chose sakura-dai, a spring ingredient. This is a sashimi course. April is when sea bream is at its best, so I thought serving…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,012

• Cook time 30 min

Sakura-dai Sawani-wan

This makes use of a spring ingredient — this time, sakura-dai, a cherry-blossom-season sea bream. This is a clear-soup course. For the sakura-dai…

• Serves 1 · ¥595

• Cook time 20 min

Sea Bream Milt Kan and Sake-Simmered Sea Bream and Bamboo Shoot

This makes use of sea bream milt. I myself love fishing, and sea bream is a special ingredient — good to catch and good to eat. Its seasons are…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Pike conger and matsutake, gently simmered

This is what's known as a 'deai-mono' — a dish pairing two ingredients that come into season together — for autumn. It's a simple dish you often see…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 20 min

Ayu Nibitashi Spring Roll

Gently simmering ingredients in a seasoned broth is a technique with a long history, and I think it makes a very delicious dish that many people…

• Serves 10 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 3 hr

Mirugai, Udo, and Wasabi Aemono

This was devised as an additional hearty course to make use of giant clam in season: giant clam, udo, and wasabi aemono. In my own sense of it, this…

• Serves 5 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 30 min

Koban-Shaped Pen Shell and Fava Bean Chakin

This is a seasonal assortment course proposal built around the last of the pen shell season. For the gold-coin-shaped pen shell and fava bean chakin…

• Serves 5 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Scallop and Salmon Hakata-style, Uni Set with Lime Jelly, Hydrangea Small Clam Adductor Temari-zushi, Beef Chigusa-maki, Tomato and Abalone Cream Bake

This uses scallops in season. I thought about what could be made using shellfish with a June feel. When I think of spring, cherry sea bream and…

• Serves 5 · ¥4,000

• Cook time 30 min

Trough shell clam in vinegared miso dressing

This is a way of using the last of the season’s trough shell clams. When I think of spring, cherry sea bream and cherry salmon also come to mind, but…

• Serves 5 · ¥1,900

• Cook time 30 min

Herring and eggplant

Herring and eggplant is a classic summer combination in Kyoto. I finish it thoroughly and carefully, without trying anything gimmicky. In particular…

• Serves 6 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 50 min

Eel and Agedashi Tofu

It's important to time the eel's grilling to finish together with the tofu's frying, so guests can enjoy the exquisite tenderness of both the tofu…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 25 min

Softshell Turtle and Lotus Root Shinjo

The softshell turtle's simmering liquid is drawn out with sake and water for 30 minutes, skimming off the scum as it goes, then seasoning is added…

• Serves 20 · ¥6,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Kuruma Prawn and Fig Mizore-Ae

This is a dish where the balance between grated daikon and the other ingredients is extremely important. If there's too much grated daikon, the dish…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 20 min