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Shinano yukimasu ogawa roll wrapped in nozawana, rapeseed blossom-apple-iwana oyako koji dressing, Shinshu beef and chrysanthemum-greens checkerboard hakusen-age, three-colored egg terrine with cherry blossoms, miso-marinated fuki wrapped tōji-style in yuba and grilled, runner bean awayuki terrine, leaf wasabi and yam sushi

Let's begin with the appetizers. For the Shinano yukimasu ogawa roll wrapped in nozawana, ogawa is normally made using minced squid or white fish…

Foie gras savory steamed egg custard, frozen konjac layered Hakata-style, monkfish set in jelly, mackerel sushi wrapped kosode-sleeve style, plum-shaped arrowhead tuber, kuruma prawn lightly simmered in dashi Edo-mae style, egg-bearing baby octopus simmered in a savory sauce, lettuce stem, Chinese yam, and crab with plum rice porridge, and rapeseed blossoms with mustard dressing

For the appetizer course's foie gras chawanmushi, the foie gras is broken up into pieces before being used.

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

Mountain yam and shrimp sandwich with grated daikon, deep-fried; burdock coated in crushed rice cracker, deep-fried; New Zealand spinach in hakusen batter, deep-fried; kofuki-dusted black soybeans, deep-fried; and plum-shaped wheat gluten crisps

Q: Please tell us how to bring out the umami in mountain yam, and how to fry plum-shaped fu crisps so they come out clean. A: Salting mountain yam…

• ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Kombu-cured halfbeak layered with bottarga, fugu milt steamed with grated turnip

For the kombu-cured sayori layered with bottarga, I cure the sayori (Japanese halfbeak) in kombu, but sayori absorbs the kombu's flavor easily and…

Konowata Tofu, Grilled Fig, Late-Season Deboned Pike Conger Kombu-Cured, Smoked Salmon and Fresh Soy-Milk-Skin Naruto Roll

For the konowata (salted sea cucumber intestines) tofu, mountain yam is combined with konowata and set with kuzu starch. It is garnished with…

• Serves 80 · ¥600

• Cook time 10 min

Salmon skin-and-roe dumplings, soup course

A modern take on regional cuisine Original regional dish: sake kogawa-ni (simmered salmon skin) Wanting to preserve the 'deliciousness' handed down…

• Serves 4 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Good-Fortune Cod Milt Nuta in a Yuzu Shell, Monkfish Liver and Celtuce Kinuta-Maki, Yorou Smoked Salmon Hakata-Style, Fugu Cracker, Sake-Grilled Squid Bonbori-Style

This is the seasonal course. The good-fortune cod milt vinegared-miso dressing served in a yuzu shell uses seven ingredients, following the tradition…

An Assortment of Sake Accompaniments

Among the assortment of sake accompaniments, the burdock shaved to resemble soba noodles has such a good texture that guests often ask for a second…

Steamed Cod Rice, Cold-Smoked Cod, Cod Cracker

This is a way of making use of the winter ingredient cod. The appetizer is designed to feel like a single course in itself. As a proposal for using…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Sea bream spring aspic, kombu-cured Shinshu salmon with vinegar dressing, simmered abalone, prawn with caviar, walnut tofu

First, we come to the five appetizer dishes. I added volume and plated them showily. For the sea bream spring aspic, I worked characters chosen for…

Herring Roe, Thinly Sliced and Pickled, Japanese Mountain Yam Wrapped in Beef, Scallop and Kumquat Sandwiched and Grilled

These are three appetizer dishes. For the herring roe senmai-zuke-style, the herring roe is soaked overnight in rice-rinsing water, then the membrane…

• ¥850

• Cook time 20 min

Salmon and kiwi layered roll, eel mallet-shaped roll, kabocha variation, tomato and scallop stuffed and cream-baked, abalone and broad bean lime jelly

This is a seasonal-vegetable course. The wasabi-yogurt vinegar used in the salmon-and-kiwi Hakata is a sauce made by blending plain yogurt and…

Yoro jelly

This is the seating course. The first seating dish, Yoro-yose, is made for summer by combining grated Japanese mountain yam with long yam cut into…

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…

Steeped Malabar spinach, squid dressed with mefun, fermented salmon roe and kidney, rock mozuku in vinegar, conger eel pressed sushi with pickled mibuna greens, mini daikon pickled in fermented mash, new-season ginkgo nuts sake-seared with bottarga and Mimolette cheese, and semi-dried sea-cucumber ovary deep-fried in freshly milled rice flour batter

This is a platter of dishes to accompany sake. Since our restaurant has many women guests, we plate it for two to four people to share and present it…

Yōrō Tofu

Sunomono, true to its title 'Melody of the Rain' — a bit of fun. The base: yōrō tofu, mountain yam and lily bulb sieved together, seasoned with milk…

Tilefish deep-fried in a straw-bundle shape, conger eel and white melon mustard pickle, small freshwater fish in white vinegar dressing, icicle-style sea urchin and mountain yam, asparagus and salmon in crystal jelly, sweetfish grilled on bamboo leaf, new-season sweet potato with matcha dressing

These are the appetizers. For the gori dressed in shiro-zu (a white tofu-sesame-vinegar dressing), sesame makes it tasty but dulls the flavor so the…

Autumn salmon wrapped in potato and grilled, king crab and potato with an egg-yolk glaze, chicken tenderloin pie with an egg-yolk glaze, rice paper flavor-coated deep-fry, grilled matsutake mushroom, chestnut mash with the skin left on, seared squid chrysanthemum roll, leaf-shaped grilled Chinese yam with sea urchin, and perilla-vinegar pickle styled to look like a grilled plum

This is the grilled hassun course. For the rice paper flavor-coated deep-fry, after rehydrating the rice paper, we coat it with dried sakura shrimp…

Hairy crab picked from the shell, kuruma prawn in areca-nut style, octopus tender-simmered with whiting, golden sushi, deep-fried stuffed red Manganji pepper, tube-cut mountain yam, rare immature salmon

As for the appetizer's tender-simmered octopus: normally I use the tender-simmering method that has been handed down since long ago, but this time I…

Shrimp dressed with fermented sweetfish entrails, new-season bottarga pickled in sake lees, pen shell and Chinese yam topped with dried sea-cucumber ovary, squid and blanched taro shoots with egg yolk and fish-entrail paste, and roe-bearing sweetfish steamed in oil

This is the sake accompaniment course. I prepared five kinds of dishes for it. As for the lemon cup they are served in, at this time of year it is…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Conger eel wrapped in soy milk skin, cherry-simmered mountain yam, butterbur

Spring Vegetable Jelly Terrine, Mugwort Sesame Tofu

Titled 'Hospitality for the Fourth Month,' this menu features dishes we serve in the restaurant. We begin with the appetizer. The sesame cream laid…

Kuruma Prawn Checkerboard, Kinko and Scallop Shinjo Wrap, Mountain Yam and Salmon Roe, Sesame Daigo, Warm-Smoked Salmon Kinuta-Maki, Early Bamboo Shoot in Habutae Kinome Coating

These are the appetizers. For the kinko (a traditional dried sea cucumber) and scallop fish-paste dumpling wrap: when I was young I was taught to…