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Arrowhead bulb castella, monkfish liver monaka, persimmon and lily bulb, mole-shaped taro, barracuda kimono-wrap sushi, brandy-cured bottarga

This is an appetizer course. There is a tenth-night custom of making a straw gun from bundled straw and beating the ground with it to drive away…

• Serves 200 · ¥250

• Cook time 2 days

Crab and sesame tofu with soft first-skimmed tofu skin, bush-warbler-green lily bulb, pumpkin and cheese terrine, Japanese halfbeak wrapped in coarse glutinous rice and sakura leaf, fava beans and whelk in plum-mist dressing

The toro-yuba in the crab and sesame tofu with toro-yuba is the soft portion that rises first when making yuba. For the lily bulb uguisu: combine…

Tilefish and Tennoji turnip, steamed with a foie gras filling

This makes use of Tennoji turnip at the end of its season. Two years ago I transferred to the Hotel New Otani Osaka, and getting to know the…

• Serves 4 · ¥2,800

• Cook time 30 min

Lily Bulb Mont Blanc

I created this under the theme "Ryokan Cuisine Today." For dessert, I made a Mont Blanc using lily bulb. The base is a lily-bulb sponge cake, baked a…

• Serves 1 · ¥350

• Cook time 2 hr

Turnip and soft roe tofu

This is a clear-soup course using turnip as an end-of-season winter ingredient. Using both winter and spring ingredients, we aimed for a dish that…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 30 min

Scattered sushi with flower-cut lily bulb, shrimp, simmered conger eel, snap pea, sansho leaf, kanpyo, simmered dried shiitake, vinegared lotus root, and ikura

You can top chirashi-zushi with anything you like, but for food-safety reasons, it's better to use ingredients that have been cooked. This…

Rein-patterned sushi roll, clams dressed lantern-style, five-color vegetable hina-arare, spring-mountain octopus, bamboo shoot and fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf, ostrich-fern fiddlehead rolled with sesame, and dawn-tinted lily bulb

And thinking of bamboo shoots in the spring hills and fields, we have the bamboo shoot and fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf. Cogomi rikyū-maki…

Tawara-shaped shrimp taro, eel kombu roll, apple and egg-batter grill, bottarga rusk, abalone, chicken in fan shape, twist-cut konjac, salmon cut in plum-blossom shape, grilled sea cucumber dressed with vinegar served in a yuzu cup, pine nut kinton, stem lettuce in mustard-koji pickle

Starting with the appetizers. In the mallet-shaped vessel I've arranged a "pine-bamboo-plum" motif. There's the tawara-shaped ebi-imo taro, chicken…

Avocado grilled with miso, Japanese sea bass grilled with sansho blossom

For the avocado grilled with miso, I use tama-miso, egg-yolk miso, which I keep on hand; its richness pairs well with the avocado's own richness, and…

Matsutake mushroom simmered shigure-style, mackerel checkerboard pressed sushi, lily bulb with chrysanthemum fragrance, sweetfish grilled with its own roe, yam bulbils in a diced coating, mustard-stuffed lotus root, mochi and ginkgo nuts tossed with sea urchin

Rice-bale-shaped deep-fried oyster; set cheese; sazanka-style lily bulb, and more

These are from the tray course. For the oyster tawara-age: sandwich bread is thinly sliced to about 2-3 mm, cut into strips roughly 3 cm long, and…

Smoked Winter Mackerel, Beef Tongue Temari Sushi, Cod Roe Karasumi, Beni-Fuji Salmon Shira-ae, Tatami Iwashi and Cheese Hakata-maki

This is a dish paired with Japanese white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture. This is an appetizer course. For the smoked winter mackerel, the…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo shoot dressed with sansho leaf, squid cherry-blossom sushi, Japanese halfbeak and asparagus roll, strawberry-style ark clam egg-yolk sushi, small kuruma prawn marinated in red-yeast-rice miso, taro stem pickled in rice-starch liquid, green pea jelly, sakura-scented lily bulb twisted into a bundle, purple sweet-potato sakura mochi, and lily-bulb petals

For the strawberry-style akagai egg-yolk sushi, rinsing the akagai briefly in warm water at about 50°C and then firming it in ice makes the sliminess…

Wind-Dried Broadbanded Thornyhead, Charcoal-Grilled, Sous-Vide Wagyu Sirloin, Curry-Flavored Miso-Marinated Oyster, Sweet-Vinegar Pickled Red Turnip and Snow-Cracked Lotus Root, Lily Bulb Oribe Chakin, Bottarga and Daikon Mochi, Saikyo-Miso-Marinated Cream Cheese

This is the grilled hassun course (assorted grilled items). For the wind-dried kichiji charcoal-grilled, I rinse the kichiji, soak it for about an…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 40 min

Persimmon and turnip in a binro-style dressing, kabosu-shell cup with seared kombu-cured pufferfish, chestnut-burr mound of white-puffed deep-fried sweet chestnut paste, crab cake baked with a poppy-seed-studded cracked top, roe-bearing ayu kelp roll, stone-wall-arranged yam bulbils, skewered

For the appetizer's seared kombu-cured fugu, I take fugu that has been kombu-cured in the usual way, sear the surface, and serve it together with a…

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Mount Fuji-shaped abalone, dried red chili pepper, mustard-set eggplant, dried cod rolled in kelp, matsutake mushroom and bonito, bamboo-cut stem lettuce, lily bulb shaped like a plum blossom, yuzu stuffed with fugu milt, flute-cut burdock in vinegar, arrowhead-root miso kinton

The bases are spinach, purple sweet potato, and yamato yam respectively. The matsutake and bonito, the bamboo-cut chisha-to, and the plum-blossom…

Tilefish kenchin-style grilled, lily bulb and purple sweet potato chakin, young pickled ginger shoot

This time, on 'grilled dishes,' I learned from chef Itō (Suitengū's 'Nihon Ryōri Sakura'). This time I take up 'kenchin-yaki.'

Winter Peony

This is a fried dish. For the winter peony, we use the lily bulb scales just outside the center, beveling the edge of each one individually. The…

• Serves 1 · ¥550

• Cook time 20 min

Tilefish grilled with a sake-soy glaze, grilled horse meat loin, eggplant tofu, salmon wrapped in napa cabbage, golden lily bulb, fig pickled in lemon, sweet potato twisted-strip deep-fry, raw salmon roe marinated in soy sauce

For the grilled course's tilefish Wakasa-yaki, since the scales were removed from the tilefish, I tried grilling it slowly over low heat so the skin…

Wakasa flounder with sansho-leaf vinegar, tilefish grilled Arashiyama-style, beef tongue set into a square, kuruma prawn simmered shiba-style, smoked salmon and cucumber rolled in kombu

This is the grilled-dish hassun course. For the Wakasa flounder with kinome vinegar, I grind kinome in a suribachi mortar and mix it with grated…

Square-Cut Herring Roe Pickled in Amber, Salmon Roe Pickled in Sake Lees, Pine-Cone-Cut Small Abalone Simmered Kōshū-Style, Moroko Lake Fish Wrapped in a Delicate Paper-Style Roll, Eel-Filled Sweet Rolled Omelet, Salmon and Turnip in a Checkerboard Pattern, Lotus Root Stuffed with Spicy Cod Roe, Dried Persimmon with Egg-Yolk Sushi, Lily Bulb and Walnut Twisted into a Bundle, and Bolted Lettuce Stalk Pickled in Saikyo Miso

These are the celebratory dishes, ten kinds in all. We combined auspicious items like datemaki and herring roe with tangy ones like Saikyo-zuke and…

Lily bulb steamed dumpling

This is the simmered course. For the lily bulb manju, coat the outside with crushed kori-mochi (freeze-dried rice-cake flakes), and just before…

Yuzu Cup, Snow Crab in Grated Daikon, Grilled and Marinated Kuruma Prawn, Oyster Grilled with Shichimi Pepper, Persimmon and Bottarga Mountain Yam Roll, Miso-Grilled Lily Bulb, Deep-Fried Chestnut

For the appetizer course's grilled and marinated kuruma prawn, the kuruma prawn is soaked in sake-salt water to bring out its aroma, then grilled and…