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Beans topped with cream cheese, kuruma prawn tossed in an Italian-style egg-yolk and fermented rice malt dressing, Kyoto rapeseed flower wrapped in prosciutto with baby onion, raw sea urchin in brine, deep-fried herring-roe wakame, snow crab fresh spring roll, and grilled bamboo shoot salad

For the black bean topped with cream cheese, plump up the black soybeans (kuromame) by soaking, then simmer them in a sweet syrup. Wrap the cream…

Spanish mackerel, butterbur-miso grilled, wagyu grilled and wrapped around burdock, bamboo shoot and sea bream roe stuffed and grilled

I'd call this an orthodox arrangement, I suppose — I plated it without much decoration so that the tableware itself would stand out. For the sawara…

Bamboo shoot fried futami-style with a snow-white coating / icefish deep-fried in a roasted-flour coating

For the accompanying dish's icefish fried in a roasted-grain coating, the icefish is soaked in a strong standing brine and drained, dusted with…

Grilled Bamboo Shoot Hasami-Yaki / Himekawa Dorayaki

For the grilled bamboo shoot hasami-yaki, I used the leftover himekawa to make dorayaki. I make a dorayaki batter with reduced sugar, flavor it with…

Sea Bream Milt Kan and Sake-Simmered Sea Bream and Bamboo Shoot

This makes use of sea bream milt. I myself love fishing, and sea bream is a special ingredient — good to catch and good to eat. Its seasons are…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Spiny lobster grilled with young sansho-leaf miso, baby abalone sea-urchin grill, bamboo shoot grilled with bonito seasoning

Grilled dishes. For the spiny lobster kinome-miso grill, spiny lobster is boiled in salted water, coated with kinome miso, and grilled. For the baby…

• ¥1,450

• Cook time 2 hr

Baby sweetfish thread-wrapped deep-fry in two colors, layered bamboo shoot fritter

This is a fried course. Baby ayu ito-maki: potato and purple sweet potato cut into long fine threads, soaked, parboiled, then coated with potato…

Shrimp-shaped taro, bamboo shoot, king crab simmered in a fried egg-yolk batter, butterbur, plum-shaped wheat gluten cake

This is the takiawase course. For the ebi-imo, rehydrate it in rice-rinsing water to remove harshness, then let it absorb a broth of kombu dashi…

Roe-bearing spear squid and mountain vegetable, steamed

The crossbred duck tataki for the extra sake-pairing course is also vacuum-sealed for cooking. Holding it just below the temperature at which protein…

Simmered okara, bamboo shoot simmered with bonito flakes, Manila clam simmered with ginger, tuna in a mustard vinegar-miso dressing

At ryokan (traditional Japanese inns), where word-of-mouth reviews have a major impact on sales, breakfast is also an important aspect, so this time…

Tree-ring bamboo shoot, octopus simmered cherry-blossom style, udo simmered in clear broth

This is the simmered course. For the tree-ring bamboo shoot, I prepare the bamboo shoot, peel it into a thin continuous sheet, parboil it, and simmer…

Bamboo Shoot Potage, and Other Dishes

For the grilled course, the yamame trout and butterbur miso gyoden-yaki is made using a mukimono knife (a thin blade used for decorative vegetable…

Turban shell, grilled in the shell

This is a grilled dish designed with the presentation in mind. Turban shell tsubo-yaki (grilled in the shell) expresses old-fashioned "nostalgia."…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 30 min

Braised Pork Belly with Spring Vegetables

This is kakuni, braised pork belly, with spring vegetables. The pork is a brand called Pineapple Pork, raised on pineapple, which gives the meat a…

Beef grilled with aromatics

The basket holding the susumezakana's (an extra course meant to encourage sake drinking) deep-fried vegetables in black vinegar marinade is made of…

Shrimp-shaped taro, new bamboo shoot, duck jibu-ni

For the simmered dish, I made our restaurant's standard 'black' simmered dish, but rather than simmering the ebi-imo (shrimp-shaped taro) as is and…

Conger eel Hakata-style simmer, tree-ring-cut bamboo shoot, mountain udo white simmer

For the simmered course's conger eel hakata, the winter melon is peeled and its color brought out using baking soda, then layered hakata-style with…

Bracken shoot and bamboo shoot, paired grilled

Small-pot course of greenling and bamboo shoots

This is the soup course. As a substitute for the usual soup, I made it in small-pot style. It would ordinarily be a young bamboo shoot and wakame…

Tilefish, bamboo-grove steamed

A clear-soup course. For the tilefish bamboo-grove steamed, every effort is made — down to how the scales are removed — to bring out the color of the…

Red-koji miso and enoki puree soup, finished with the clear top liquor, sake-grilled young red sea bream wrapped in fried tofu skin

As for the beni-koji miso enoki surinagashi finished with the clear top liquor — I arranged a miso soup made with enoki, one of my personal…

Hime-Sazae Tataki with Warabi Dressing, Scallop Iso-Yose Kimi-Yaki, Hotaru-Ika Wrapped with Bamboo Shoot, Butterbur Raft, New Burdock Stuffed with Uni-Kinton

This is the appetizer course. For the small turban shell tataki with bracken fern dressing: simmer the turban shell in dark-soy happō dashi…

Bamboo shoot tofu fritter with wakame-thickened sauce

This time, since it's a simmered dish course, I used bamboo shoot and wild mountain greens, both spring ingredients. At our restaurant we buy many of…

Fat greenling kuzu-tataki

The nimono-wan — a simmered-soup course — is fat greenling kuzu-tataki, lightly tenderized and dusted with kuzu starch. A nimono-wan is extremely…