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Fresh-green style fat greenling

For the soup course, I made a fresh-green style dish using molokheiya. The molokheiya is boiled and then run through a blender ahead of time. A…

River Trout Kinome-Grilled, Clam Shell-Grilled

For the grilled course's kinome-grilled river trout, seasonal river trout is filleted into three pieces to get a boneless fillet, knife-scored in a…

Flavored Deep-Fried Icefish

For the flavored deep-fried icefish, the icefish is soaked in a sake-and-salt marinade, patted lightly dry, and has its tail and head removed, then…

Snow shrimp, rice-bale-shaped deep-fry

Chrysanthemum-cut Juzen eggplant, simmered to absorb flavor

Salt-grilled live moroko / basted-grilled bamboo shoot

For the grilled course's salt-grilled live moroko, we used moroko farmed in Chiba Prefecture. They're arranged in a small charcoal hand-brazier to…

Tomato Zoni

For the simmered course, the tomato zoni (a mochi rice-cake soup, given here as a simmered dish) — the tomatoes release plenty of their own broth…

Raw fish: cured assortment

For the raw horse mackerel and Japanese whiting: we lightly salt them, and once the salt has settled in, we press them gently with kombu and set them…

First course: seared sea cucumber, grated daikon dressing

Sakura-chaya was founded in Showa 8 — 1933 — and is the third-oldest established ryotei, a traditional Japanese restaurant, in Mukojima, a district…

Yanagawa nabe

Carp Carpaccio

We have given carp a Western-style arrangement. Carp is usually prepared chilled and thinly sliced, rinsed in ice water, or as a miso-simmered carp…

Chicken tenderloin and maitake mushroom grilled on a magnolia leaf

The grilled course is chicken tenderloin and maitake mushroom hoba-yaki. Hoba-yaki tends to bring to mind long green onion, but onion has sweetness…

Frozen Vinegar Slaw

Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories. We began…

Chrysanthemum Petal Hitashi

(Looking back on the year with delicacies of the twelve zodiac animals, over a drink — all of it gentle on the body and low in calories.) We began…

Snow crab, blanched white taro shoots, and fine-julienned okra with ginger-scented kuzu-thickened vinegar

For the vinegared dish of snow crab, blanched white taro shoots, and fine-julienned okra, the snow crab is expensive, so we use the packaged…

Ise Lobster Sautéed in Aromatic Butter

For the Ise lobster sautéed in aromatic butter in this grilled dish, adding the aromatic butter right at the end brings out a great deal of richness…

Abalone fried in rice-cracker crumbs

Three-Color Kikka-Jime Assortment

Small kuruma prawn, fan-shaped deep-fry

Saimaki prawn hakusen-age is meant to evoke a spring haze. I think saimaki prawns are best without much knife work, deep-fried quickly in high-heat…

Surume-Ika with Seared Liver Dressing

The Japanese common squid with seared liver dressing is essentially a shiokara. I came up with it after a guest with weak teeth told me they couldn't…

Crane's-egg taro, bamboo shoot shaped as a longevity turtle, zodiac-themed kombu roll

The conger eel head in the sweet-simmered dish carries the idea that 'this sweet-simmered stock is based on bonito dashi, but I also use dashi drawn…

Gold and Silver Tofu

For the gold-and-silver tofu, the white portion is sesame-milk tofu and the yellow is yuzu jelly, both set with the same base. For the setting base…

Sacred sake-dressed dish

For the celebratory course's sacred sake–dressed dish (omiki-ae), I plated it in a vessel shaped like a spinning top. Once the prepped ingredients…

Ryōgoku-style fawn-dappled scallop

Beneath the scallop fawn-dappled scoring in this soup course lies simmered millet-gluten cake; chewy steamed glutinous rice or sesame tofu would…