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Botan shrimp, Yachimata peanuts smoked over sawdust, red Fushimi chili pepper, kabosu citrus shell, crab and chrysanthemum greens blanched and dressed, Tomisato baby taro grilled with fermented bonito innards, roe-bearing mantis shrimp wrapped in wakame, saffron cod roe ginger-soy simmered, maple-red spicy cod roe terrine, pufferfish fin in a sweet-vinegar marinade, baby arrowhead bulb, ginkgo-leaf-shaped sweet potato confection, salted ginkgo nuts

Our guests are mostly somewhat older women visiting on pilgrimage during the day, and business parties such as client entertaining in the evening…

Cod milt soup, autumn eggplant, duck meatballs, shrimp

This is the clear-soup course. For the kumoko soup, a plain white-miso preparation would not be very interesting, so I mixed in sieved shirako (soft…

• ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Warm-smoked mallet-shaped roll, rolled dried baby-sardine sheet, sansho-leaf dressed dish, layered black soybeans, monkfish liver egg-yolk-batter fried

For the tatami iwashi yatsuhashi, I spread a thin layer of shrimp fish paste onto the tatami iwashi, a sheet of dried baby sardines, roll it around a…

Tomato-stuffed water eggplant, pea-stuffed aori squid, bakurai jelly, Mineoka tofu

Made in a style resembling an appetizer course. As for the tomato-stuffed eggplant — a mild, low-acid variety usually eaten raw — since tomato and…

Tilefish autumn medley grilled on a magnolia leaf

This is the grilled course. Because tilefish is a delicately flavored white fish, the rich, heavy character of the miso with egg base added pairs…

• ¥900

• Cook time 50 min

Autumn Salmon, Autumn-Brocade Rice Cream Croquette

This is a fried dish. The autumn salmon and autumn-brocade rice cream croquette uses salmon, soy milk skin, and white sauce. Since we run an inn, we…

• Serves 30 · ¥3,500

• Cook time 1 hr

Lily bulb steamed bun, halfbeak chrysanthemum sushi, chrysanthemum-carved turnip, tubular chrysanthemum cheese, eel baked in pastry

In place of a standard appetizer course, I made everything in a single chrysanthemum theme, with every dish styled to resemble a chrysanthemum. For…

Stuffed shiitake fry, matcha-grilled sea bream, shiratama-style grill

The story of tea. In the old days, tea carried from Uji was stored partway along the route in tea-jar cellars in Yamanashi to see it through the…

Oyster and Persimmon Miso Gratin

Japanese flounder rolled with rapeseed blossoms, pond smelt grilled with sansho leaf, shrimp plum-blossom sushi, bracken fern shoots and lotus root, and lotus root three-flavor deep-fry

Seaweed fish cake, Murakami beef Echigo-style grilled, pressed-sugar confection, miso-glazed sponge gourd, Sado-style steamed jidori chicken

Tempura in Clear Broth

This is the soup course. Many guests order the item called "tenuki" at the restaurant — where the soba is left out and only the tempura is enjoyed in…

• ¥200

• Cook time 10 min

Scallop and paprika agar-set preparation, deep-fried wood ear mushroom dumpling, sweetfish simmered and steeped in dashi, Manganji pepper stuffed with sea urchin, taro stem and abalone with egg-yolk vinegar sauce

Since this is for August, I've built the whole presentation around a green motif to convey a sense of coolness. Let's start with the appetizer. For…

Habutae-Mushi, Jade Eggplant Ohitashi, and Liver Simmered Arima-Style

For the first course, a silken steamed custard, sea bream backbones are heavily salted and simmered at a rolling boil for four to five hours to draw…

Spanish mackerel and mozuku soba, shrimp folded in a zigzag shape

This is the soup course. Since the soba noodles have mozuku kneaded into the dough, they have a strong bite, so the key point is to boil them a bit…

• ¥225

• Cook time 20 min

Sakura okra jelly terrine, checkerboard Agu pork, twisted-rein sushi with ruby snapper and bitter melon, and more

For the sakura okra jelly terrine, gelatin is bloomed for about 15 minutes and seasoned with sake, light soy sauce, and mirin; about 400cc is warmed…

Calico-patterned tofu, avocado dumpling, duck and scallion, yuba, snap peas

The simmered course's sarasa-dofu is made by heating tofu that has been simmered to absorb flavor, breaking it apart while mixing in the other…

Sake-Simmered Kinki, Simmered Egg, Chrysanthemum-Cut Daikon, Shrimp Layered with Fish Paste, Tube-Cut Burdock, Chrysanthemum-Leaf Winter Melon, Deep-Fried Marinated Autumn Eggplant, Maple-Leaf Carrot, Mini Daikon

This is an assorted simmered dish course. For the sake-simmered thornyhead rockfish, the fish is first plain-grilled, then simmered in kombu, sake…

Kamo eggplant clear-soup course — golden eye snapper, red shrimp, water shield, sudachi

For the soup course, it's important to time the preparation of each ingredient so that the dish tastes best at the moment the soup ingredients are…

Winter Solstice Kabocha Manju

This is the steamed course. For the winter solstice kabocha-squash manju, in keeping with the winter solstice custom I fill it with ingredients whose…

Milt tofu; kombu-cured cod; persimmon wrapped in prosciutto, and more

The baked apple is made by cutting apple into comb-shaped wedges, coating generously with granulated sugar, and baking in the oven; once cooled and…

Rice-paper-wrapped deep-fry

I took the liberty of naming this dish 'hagoromo-age' myself. Rice paper is often cut into round shapes and used as a serving vessel, but I wondered…

Sweet-vinegar-pickled onion, crab wrapped in thin-sliced turnip, mountain asparagus pickled plum-blossom style, snow-flower-cut lotus root, arrowhead bulb sweet-vinegar pickle, grilled octopus

For the vinegared dish this time, I did use shrimp and octopus, but the idea was to see whether it would be interesting to make a vinegared course…

Sansho-leaf miso topping, fresh tofu skin topped with sea urchin, herring roe marinated in a seasoned bed, eel rolled with burdock, shrimp and fava beans, rapeseed blossoms and grilled egg, egg-filled baby octopus, flounder ball-shaped sushi, steamed lily bulb