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Clear-stream cold wheat noodles

The hasami (literally 'in-between') is a word I coined myself; it carries a meaning similar to a palate-cleansing bite or a between-course rest for…

Large kuruma prawn dry-braised with shuto, silver-skin young sea bass salt-grilled, crossbred duck two-color teriyaki

As for the bowl-plated hors d'oeuvre's silver-skin young sea bass, salt-grilled — salt-grilling suits young sea bass best. Young sea bass has a bit…

Young sea bass arai, bigfin reef squid ripple-cut, bluefin tuna straight-cut, abalone small cube-cut

I'll skip the explanation for each of the sashimi items, but let me say a word about knife work. The knife can either bring out the best in an…

Scorpionfish Wrapped in White Kuzu with Its Own Liver

The soup-course dish is scorpionfish (okoze) wrapped in white kuzu with its own liver. Scorpionfish just before its summer spawning is spoken of in…

Scorpionfish Steamed in a Thin Egg Custard with Its Own Stock

The alternate clear-soup course is okoze steamed in a thin egg custard with its own stock. This one uses the okoze's head and nakaochi, the meat…

Squid tossed with shuto, flounder aspic, mock foie gras of chicken white liver, aromatic fried shrimp, hydrangea-shaped fried kamaboko, young chicken and asparagus roll, thread-like sea vegetable, Japanese anchovy pressed and pickled with ginger, paper-umbrella-shaped myoga and potato sushi, cucumber cut as a tree frog with moromi miso, raindrop tapioca

The 'Sound of Rain' appetizer platter (Amaoto no Zensai) is an appetizer that expresses the June season through rain, green, polka dots, paper…

Abalone Steamed Matsumae-Style, Flounder and White Gourd Polka-Dot

For the vinegared dish abalone steamed Matsumae-style, the abalone is prepped, topped with a round slice of daikon, sprinkled with sake, wrapped in…

Softshell Turtle and Sansho Pepper Aspic Molded with Summer Daikon

The chilled dish softshell turtle and sansho pepper aspic molded with summer daikon is made by filleting the turtle in the usual way, quick-blanching…

Grilled Twin-Layered Pike Conger

The grilled twin-layered pike conger dish comes from an idea I had: when you bone-cut pike conger that has rested two to three days, scrap meat…

Shark Fin and Lotus Root Cake

The shark fin and lotus root cake soup course is made by treating fresh lotus root to prevent discoloration, grating it on a grater, folding in…

Taro stem somen

For the taro stem somen, we used white zuiki and green zuiki to make an attractively two-colored somen. The white zuiki is boiled in hot water as…

Chicken Tenderloin Cured with Kelp Tea, Flame-Seared, Served with Oil Namasu

For the chicken tenderloin cured with kelp tea, flame-seared, served with oil namasu: the light, seared-and-chilled (yakishimo) chicken tenderloin…

Octopus simmered in fish sauce

Mustard Cream Salad

The mustard cream used in the mustard cream salad has sour cream mixed in, giving it acidity, so it's light and very easy to eat.

Ayu uruka tofu

The appetizer ayu uruka tofu is served topped with tade-oroshi (grated water pepper) that has been given a sweet-and-sour balance with a little sweet…

Rock oyster wrapped in kadaif, young kuruma prawn wrapped with green papaya, small myoga wrapped with cheese, and freshly ground hoshiko deep-fried

For the fried young kuruma prawn (saimaki) wrapped with green papaya, since summer tends to cause indigestion, we used green papaya, which contains…

Seared Wagyu Fillet

The aromatic sauce for the grilled dish uses apple and orange, but any seasonal citrus can be used in place of the orange. When serving the seared…

Ise lobster simmered with fermented black beans, sweetfish simmered with plum, small taro simmered golden-style, winter melon simmered in salt, red konjac finished with a pan-simmered touch, hyacinth bean

The fermented black beans used in the simmered Ise lobster with fermented black beans are a Chinese ingredient, similar to Daitokuji natto or…

Sawani-Style Clear Soup

The soup is the usual sawani-style broth combined with deep-fried pike conger (hamo). Sawani soup normally uses pork fatback, but this time we used…

Physalis with warm-smoked salmon potato sushi, grilled matsutake mushroom soaked in ponzu, miso-marinated foie gras, squid cracker, and eel roll grilled kenchin-style

The physalis with warm-smoked salmon potato sushi contains potato sushi made with smoked salmon inside a physalis husk, along with edible physalis…

Steamed abalone, white taro stem, and trefoil stem tossed with peanuts

Steamed abalone with white taro stem and stem mitsuba tossed with peanuts is designed to be mixed together by the guest's own hand. The abalone liver…

Cauliflower Tofu

The appetizer cauliflower tofu is combined with broccoli purée. The color is quite strong, so even with soy milk mixed in, it comes out a vivid…

Whiting sandwiched with shrimp shinjo paste, deep-fried

For the fried course's whiting futami-age, rather than filleting the whiting into three pieces, I butterfly it open leaving the tail attached, remove…

Summer vegetables and eel simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper

As for the simmered course's eel Arima-ni, after the eel is grilled, while it's still hot I push the bones up from the bottom toward the top and pull…