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Blackthroat seaperch grilled with salt-fermented bonito viscera, young sweetfish grilled with new-season tea

This is a grilled course. For the blackthroat seaperch grilled with shuto: the fish is rinsed and cleaned, steeped in sake cut with water for about…

Mugwort tofu-dressed sauce, grilled corn and cheese with bottarga, paprika-red deep-fry

A savory course. I divided the vegetables typical of June and July into three colors, split both by hue and by cooking method. The idea for the…

• ¥500

• Cook time 1 hr

Herring pickled in rice malt, pumpkin and spinach two-tone, cheese egg, runner bean and carrot sweet-simmered, sardine and eggplant hakata roll, matsutake and shrimp shinjo deep-fry, flounder datemaki

These are the appetizers. For the herring pickled in rice malt, I add amazake so it doesn't become too salty. I used 60g of salt, though I think it…

Oil-grilled pike conger, salt-grilled striped jack

For the grilled course, the salt-grilled shima-aji, we serve the collar of the shima-aji salt-grilled. Then there's the hamo. By September, if we…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,160

• Cook time 20 min

Scallop bountiful-harvest fritter, amanaga pepper with shinjo cast inside, white shrimp cheese cracker

This is the fried course. For the scallop hōnen-age, the scallops are washed with salt and processed in a food processor. Since the kadaif used here…

Three-year fugu, thin-sliced sashimi winter vegetable roll

This sashimi course is only possible thanks to fugu in season. For the Three-Year Fugu Usu-zukuri with Winter Vegetable Roll, the thin-sliced sashimi…

• Serves 3 · ¥2,300

• Cook time 1 hr

Charcoal-Grilled Tiger Fugu, Zenmaru Shiitake, Scallion Sprouts, Sudachi

Tiger fugu, which is normally enjoyed with the flavor of salt or soy sauce, we serve marinated in shuto (fermented salted bonito innards) broth and…

• Serves 1 · ¥720

• Cook time 30 min

Grilled Autumn Sweetfish, Marinated in Vinegar

This is the su-zakana (vinegared course). For the grilled ochiayu marinated in vinegar, I plain-grill the ayu, remove the dorsal fin, pectoral fins…

• ¥400

• Cook time 15 min

Small sea bream steamed with okara, silver sauce

This is the steamed dish from Kochi's New Year cuisine. Kodai Soy pulp-Mushi with Silver Sauce gives a modern update to soy pulp-mushi, a dish long…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Matsutake Dobin-Mushi

This is a clear-soup course. For the matsutake teapot-steamed soup, matsutake mushroom, pike conger, small kuruma prawns, and chicken are arranged in…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 20 min

Steamed Turnip with Pufferfish Milt and Silver Sauce

As it's the cold December season, we begin with a hot dish: steamed turnip topped with fugu milt and a silver sauce. We place grilled fugu milt over…

• ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Smoked satsuki masu and turnip namasu, amberjack kombu-cured with sesame vinegar, seared scallop

This stands in for the sashimi course. We prepared dishes to pair with a fruity, slightly full-bodied red wine. Since soy sauce doesn't pair well…

Tilefish, matsutake mushroom

This is the clear-soup course. The kise-ginkgo — ginkgo nuts coated in a thin kuzu-starch sheet — is set in a hot water bath the same way as kuzukiri…

Oyster, Snow-Style Grilled, Walnut Tofu, Cod Milt Tama-Aburi, and More

Five sake-accompaniment dishes. We portioned them with about 3 servings in mind. Shell oyster yukinaka-yaki uses small oysters from Akkeshi. Since…

Ice Block Presentation

For the palate-refreshing mid-meal course, I made it into an ice-block presentation. This time I laid down bamboo leaves and served sudachi sōmen…

• Serves 1 · ¥980

• Cook time 1 hr

Eel and collagen rice porridge — the synergy of three collagen soups

As part of an effort to cope with rising food costs, the concept behind this meal course is "synergy." When steaming plain-grilled eel, the water in…

• Serves 2 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr

Tilefish grilled, wrapped in yuba with kenchin-style vegetables, end-of-season matsutake

This is the grilled course. For the tilefish yuba-kenchin grill, kenchin is normally made with tofu, but here we combine mashed, seasoned yuba with…

Aromatic deep-fried ayu

This is an accompanying course. For the aromatic deep-fried ayu, salt-grilling is good too, but here small ones are cut open in the suzume style (a…

Rock oyster steamed in wine with tofu-skin soup

This is a susume-zakana, an additional sake-accompanying course. For the rock oyster steamed in wine with yuba soup: the rock oyster is cleaned of…

Akebi platter; cod milt topped with grated turnip; flavor-grilled pen shell, and more

For the cod milt topped with grated turnip: raw cod milt is salted and left briefly, then rinsed in water to remove the sliminess. It's treated with…

Knotted tilefish, deep-fried okitsu-style, pine-cone-cut arrowhead tuber, icefish and apple deep-fried in a julienned wrap, angelica-tree shoots fried in egg-yolk batter, tomato-colored wheat gluten tied in a knot, and garland chrysanthemum deep-fried in a fan shape

The final course is the deep-fried dish. For the knotted tilefish okitsu-age, in Shizuoka a one-night-dried tilefish is called "okitsu-dai," so we…

Barracuda bo-zushi, grilled mushrooms and chrysanthemum greens with sudachi in a kettle, abalone grilled with fragrant nori

This is the appetizer course. For the abalone grilled with fragrant nori, the abalone is layered in two: a liver-based sauce beneath softly steamed…

The blessings of Hyogo's five provinces -- Settsu bamboo shoot grilled in the style of Nada's five sake districts; Harima bamboo shoot in vinegar jelly flavored with its tender inner sheath; Tajima bamboo shoot with firefly squid and egg-yolk vinegar sauce; Tamba bamboo shoot, black bean, and mountain yam wrapped in yuba and deep-fried; Awaji bamboo shoot and needle-cut squid in sansho-leaf miso

We combined the wonderful spring ingredients of the five regions within Hyogo Prefecture -- Settsu, Harima, Tajima, Tamba, and Awaji -- each rich in…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,420

• Cook time 2 days

Layered beef tongue, spiny lobster deep-fried in a straw coat

This is a fried course. For the hakata-style beef tongue, only the sinew is removed from the beef tongue, which is then rehydrated in a pressure…

• ¥900

• Cook time 4 hr