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On an auspicious day (red sea bream flesh and fin)

From "expressing local heritage through cooking," this is the simmered course. Using the flesh and fin of red sea bream from Fukuoka, which boasts…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,100

• Cook time 50 min

Fresh Greens Jelly with Sea Bream Roe

For the fresh-greens jelly topped with sea bream roe, I use Otafuku shungiku, though Kyo-shungiku works just as well. The shirako is salt-boiled…

• ¥80

• Cook time 1 hr

Reishi sea snail fried in egg yolk batter, tomato deep-fried in white batter, stuffed hollow burdock

This is a fried course. For the Reishi sea snail fried in egg-yolk batter, I deep-fried the sea snail in a batter of rooibos tea, egg yolk, and…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 40 min

Omi beef, sea urchin, and bamboo shoot roll, grilled, topped with the aroma of sansho flower

The harmony of aromas conducted on the iron griddle is outstanding. Ōmi beef with just the right marbling, bamboo shoot wrapped in the flavor of…

Tilefish nanban-zuke and shrimp nanban-zuke with accordion-cut cucumber, freeze-dried tofu achara pickle, Fushimi pepper, and mixed scallion

This time, on 'vinegared dishes,' I learned from instructor Nakamura (Ryōtei Chiyoda). I take up 'nanban-zuke.'

Chirashi Sushi

This time it's chirashi sushi, the fundamental rice course. For this sushi rice, I wanted a pronounced vinegar aroma, so I make the sushi vinegar…

• Serves 4 · ¥5,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Beef Hitsumabushi

Finally, the rice course. Beef hitsumabushi — traditionally a rice dish made with eel, served three different ways — came about from a customer's…

Grilled carp with butterbur miso, arrow-fletched mustard lotus root, John Dory two-layer fish-paste dumpling, nemagari bamboo shoot grilled with sansho bud, iris-shaped Shadow Queen potato and cream terrine

This is the grilled course. For the grilled carp with butterbur miso, I take a carp fillet, lightly salt it, score the bones, and deep-fry it plain…

• ¥450

• Cook time 6 hr

Sous-Vide Duck

This is the additional hearty course. For the sous-vide duck, the duck is soaked for fifteen minutes in Kankyō Shuzō's 'liquid shio-kōji' — a…

Deep-Fried Amberjack

For the deep-fried kanpachi (amberjack), I lightly salt the kanpachi, coat it in potato starch, and deep-fry it. In place of the lemon-soy sauce…

• ¥355

• Cook time 10 min

Sushi, sushi, sushi, sushi — the incoming boat, the outgoing boat

As an innovation for the rice course, I devised this from chirashi-zushi. Between layers of sushi rice, I press in dry-roasted items — dry-scrambled…

• Serves 4 · ¥12,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Fermented sea bream sashimi, topped with jellied fish broth

For about ten years now, he has focused on Aspergillus oryzae (Japanese koji mold), and opened his current restaurant in 2014. He noted that food…

• Serves 1 · ¥120

• Cook time 8 hr

Kagoshima tea-leaf five-ingredient tofu dressing

This dish uses tea, one of Kagoshima Prefecture's proudest products — Kagoshima actually ranks first nationwide in tea output. Kagoshima tea is mild…

• Serves 3 · ¥300

• Cook time 30 min

Molded ark shell, baby turban shell grilled with wakame, whiting sushi wrapped chimaki-style, Hakata-style duck white loin, pale-poached, dried shrimp and tomato, lightly marinated, sea bream roe jelly

This is the appetizers course. For the baby turban shell grilled with wakame, I bring out the color of the wakame and blend it in a mixer, then blend…

Tempura (Rice with Soy-Marinated Ikura, Tai [Sea Bream] and Cherry-Blossom Dōmyōji-Mushi, Iburi-Gakko Potato Salad with Colorful Akita Vegetables, Snow Crab Tomo-Ae Kinuta-Maki, Aigamo Duck Skewer with Egg-Yolk Soy Sauce and Sansho)

For the tai and cherry-blossom dōmyōji-mushi, the dōmyōji rice flour is reconstituted in dashi and dyed cherry-blossom pink, making for a dish with…

Roasted Hakata Wagyu

What I look for in beef is that the meat itself has a firm sense of umami. For the roasted Hakata wagyu served this time, we used rump meat, cooking…

• Serves 2 · ¥1,500

• Cook time 3 hr

Jumbo Kuruma Prawn, Shark Fin

This is kuruma prawn tempura, but the jumbo kuruma prawn is served fried to about a half-cooked doneness, not quite fully cooked through, and I've…

• Cook time 10 min

Spring baby sea bream grilled with a rapeseed-blossom glaze, fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Corn pureed soup, grilled mochi, quail anpei, thinned mustard

This time, on the 'soup-bowl course,' I learned from technical director Katō (Meguro Gajoen). This time I take up 'surinagashi.'

Kagoshima Fava Bean 'Croquette'

This dish is a piece of culinary development built around the rich ingredients Kagoshima Prefecture is known for. Fava beans are a Kagoshima…

• Serves 4 · ¥500

• Cook time 3 hr

Iwagaki Rock Oyster with Uni Dashi

As for the iwagaki rock oyster with uni (sea urchin) dashi, iwagaki have thick flesh, come in a range of sizes, and have a rich umami, making them an…

• ¥533

• Cook time 2 hr

Wild Mountain Vegetable Sawani-Wan

You can enjoy two flavors in a single soup bowl. One is a flavor combining vegetables and asari clams. I roast butterbur sprouts and udo at 100°C for…

• Serves 1 · ¥580

• Cook time 30 min

Wagyu grilled with miso

From the summer course menu, this is the wagyu miso hot pot (gyū-nabe). We get many overseas guests at our restaurant, and sukiyaki is often…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,400

• Cook time 2 hr

Clam shinjo

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr