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Late-Spring Clay-Pot Rice

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, this uses the nagori of sakura shrimp. This is the rice course. For the…

• Serves 1 · ¥310

• Cook time 30 min

Ise lobster and daikon man'nen-ni

As part of using spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori, I’ll introduce a dish featuring Ise lobster in season. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥930

• Cook time 3 days

Spot prawn baked in egg batter

This uses spring ingredients at their shun, hashiri, and nagori. This is the grilled course. For the botan shrimp tamaji-yaki, I make it with…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 1 hr

Botan Shrimp and New Potato Soup

As part of using spring ingredients at their peak, first catch, and last of the season, this uses the first catch of botan shrimp. This is served in…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 30 min

New Onion with Parmigiano

As June approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Eel Hot Pot

Throughout the year, our restaurant serves a hot-pot-style dish within the tasting menu that focuses on seasonal ingredients. This time it's a hot…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Spring turnip and Date chicken wings takiawase

As May approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Chilled Corn Chawanmushi

For the season when the heat increases, I devised a dish that lets you savor, with a smooth, pleasant swallow, the aroma and gentle sweetness of…

• Serves 1 · ¥700

• Cook time 1 hr

Takuan and lightly pickled cucumber

This is the kōonomono (pickles course). For the takuan and lightly pickled cucumber, I make fine kesa-style diagonal cuts on the front of the takuan…

Tilefish twisted-rein fry, potato manju, corn, beach silvertop, sudachi, sansho salt

I present a tazuna-age that makes the most of the beauty of the tilefish's skin. For the core, I use a shrimp shinjo made from kuruma prawn, aiming…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 30 min

Ichigo-ni rice in hot broth

This is the hot-water course served near the end of the meal. Since this book comes out in May, it’s a good time of year to use a bronze soup vessel…

• Serves 1 · ¥500

• Cook time 30 min

Spiny lobster simmered in the shell with egg yolk

This is the simmered course. The menu lists it as shiradatsu — the taro stem also known as zuiki — but blanched taro shoots can be used in its place…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,200

• Cook time 1 hr

Omi beef fillet, silver duck miso, truffle

This is the grilled course. For the vessel, I use a teaburi (charcoal hand-warmer brazier) made by Eiraku Zengorō. Unlike the portable charcoal grill…

• Serves 1 · ¥4,000

• Cook time 40 min

Layered star flounder with salted sea urchin

For the mukōzuke, the sashimi course, since it’s summer, I used star flounder. I deliberately slice star flounder thick. That brings out the fish’s…

Abalone shinjo

This is the simmered soup bowl course. The dried sea cucumber ovary isn’t fully dried — it’s more of a half-dried, still somewhat raw state. At the…

• Serves 1 · ¥3,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Mountain yam mold, karukan-style

This is the appetizer. For the mountain yam karukan-yose, I think quite a few restaurants make a jelly-set mountain yam dish, but I got the idea from…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,200

• Cook time 40 min

Plum hot water

First is the welcome course. Many restaurants serve something like salted cherry blossom in hot water, but I learned of this one at Eihei-ji. At…

New Cabbage Hakata-style

For the vinegared dish, I expressed ‘beauty.’ I thought of this because the color and pattern of kuruma prawn, the star ingredient, come out…

• Serves 1 · ¥430

• Cook time 45 min

Deep-fried salt-dried tilefish with fermented bonito innards sauce

For this additional course, designed with presentation in mind, I expressed ‘warmth.’ To bring out warmth at its best, I think nothing beats a…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 30 min

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

Cherry sea bream steamed with festive red rice

This warm small bowl course expresses ‘nostalgia.’ In the present day, festive red rice with azuki beans is nothing special — it can be eaten any…

• Serves 1 · ¥315

• Cook time 1 hr

White sesame mizu-yokan (fig purée, strained red bean paste, kuzu-starch noodles, toasted sesame)

This confectionery technique is one I learned from Mr. Oguma, who has looked after me since I was young. It was a mizu-yokan (a chilled, lightly set…

• Serves 1 · ¥200

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Simmered Sea Bream Roe, Octopus Sakura-ni

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. This is the simmered…

• Serves 1 · ¥290

• Cook time 2 hr

Spanish mackerel miso-marinated and grilled with citrus flavor, butterbur sprout grilled with miso glaze, bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf

With the presentation in mind, this time I set out to express both the gorgeous fragrance of cherry blossoms and vivid coloring. The grilled course…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 2 days