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Dried herring in sansho oil

The only dishes I knew that used dried herring fillets were sweet syrup-simmered preserves and steamed-and-simmered dishes, but it occurred to me…

• Serves 5 · ¥490

• Cook time 15 min

Soy Milk Hot Pot — Using Fish Maw

Swim bladder is a luxury ingredient in Chinese cuisine, but we came up with this dish with the idea…

• Serves 3 · ¥740

• Cook time 15 min

Dried persimmon, golden sea cucumber, and walnut salad, monkfish liver wine terrine, smoked silver-shimmer fish styled as a winter camellia, yellowtail sushi fingers rolled kimono-sleeve style, snow crab deep-fried and wrapped in yuba, dried roe deep-fried in a fan-shaped coating, vegetables in a sweet-and-sour achara pickle, freeze-dried konjac and a prized fatty whale cut simmered Yamato-style

For the dried persimmon, golden sea cucumber, and walnut salad, I use a local specialty dried persimmon. The golden sea cucumber is thoroughly…

• ¥950

• Cook time 3 hr

Fugu milt tofu, highland scarlet runner bean simmered in black tea, grilled fugu milt, sea urchin cracker, pine-needle-cut green beans, black tea sauce

For the fugu milt tofu, I add Kōzu Jersey milk, a local prefectural product, to fugu milt — a signature winter ingredient — to achieve a rich depth…

• ¥350

• Cook time 3 hr

Rice-flour and fava-bean manju wrapped in cherry leaf, topped with silver sauce, carrot, udo, wasabi, cherry leaf

When you lift the lid of the soup bowl, the spring fragrance of fava beans drifts up along with a gentle scent of cherry blossom, creating what I…

Clam and wild mountain vegetable takikomi rice — wasabi leaf, fiddlehead fern, butterbur sprout, angelica-tree shoots

They order delicious varieties of rice from all over Japan depending on the season. At the time of …

Rump cap beef marinated in soy-koji, tilefish baked in a snow-like coating

This is the grilled course. All of these dishes are firmly seasoned but not heavy-handed, so I think they pair well with white wine or junmai ginjo…

• ¥1,500

• Cook time 2 hr

Tilefish grilled with seaweed

As a way of using wakame differently from usual, I thought about turning it into a paste. Making use of the alginic acid in wakame, I created a…

• Serves 3 · ¥1,700

• Cook time 15 min

Beef short rib simmered in miso, grilled tofu stuffed with mushroom

Since this dish has a rich, heavy seasoning, I think it pairs well with red wine or aged sake (koshu). For the geta-karubi beef simmered in miso, I…

• ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Steamed beef neck, hand-pinched lotus root dumpling

Since the dish makes the most of the meat's umami and finishes light, I think it pairs well with a lightly alcohol-added sake or barley shochu. Neck…

Turnip cup with monkfish liver and carrot in beef-shank dashi sauce, beef tendon and persimmon namasu, inner thigh beef cured in squid shiokara, seared outer thigh beef with crab miso sauce, fried beef shank coated in maitake mushroom and bottarga, oysters wrapped in beef belly

Since the toast at the start of the meal is often beer or chilled sake even in winter, I wanted something warm that lets you feel the umami. For the…

• ¥600

• Cook time 2 hr

Ise lobster, grilled in the shell

For the Ise lobster onigara-yaki, I use Ise lobster and sea urchin (uni) to create a lavish presentation that guests can enjoy visually as well.

• ¥2,300

• Cook time 10 min

Pufferfish cured in kombu

For the fugu kombu-cured hand-rolled sushi, to let guests enjoy the aroma and flavor of the fugu itself, I slice it thin at an angle and cure it in…

• ¥155

• Cook time 5 min

Clear soup with a fluffy cod-and-milt fish dumpling, thin-ice-style daikon

For the clear soup with a fluffy cod-and-milt fish dumpling, I whip the binder into a meringue-like foam, much like a shinjo base, to give it a…

• ¥350

• Cook time 40 min

Snow crab cedar-plank bake, duck roast with black pepper, tilefish ponzu jelly, clam kuzu simmer, sake-simmered saimaki prawn, rolled plum sheet and sake lees, Hakata-style, sweet chestnut mash, apple and dried persimmon in tofu dressing

For the snow crab cedar-plank bake, I use snow crab at its best during the Minor Cold season, in early January, and steam-bake it on a cedar plank to…

• ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Keen's gaper clam pureed soup

For the mirugai surinagashi, I combine the savory richness of mirugai with Yamato yam to create a light, refreshing dish perfectly suited to the…

• ¥150

• Cook time 30 min

Wild yam deep-fried, wrapped in tofu skin

As for the wild yam tōji-age, the texture combines the springy bite of a fish-paste dumpling with the moist, tender quality of wild yam. I feel…

• ¥106

• Cook time 25 min

Greeneye fish, Hakata-style, matsutake mushroom, monkfish liver

As for the greeneye fish (mehikari) Hakata-style, mehikari is a deep-sea fish, similar to a male shishamo smelt. In females the roe has a strong…

• ¥428

• Cook time 20 min

Iwaki shellfish bake, sea bream and burdock root roll, abalone and sea urchin grill

All of the ingredients are sourced from Iwaki. The sea bream and burdock root roll is a well-matched pairing — sea bream at this time of year is rich…

• ¥345

• Cook time 30 min

Dressed with "Dried-Fruit Miso"

Dried persimmon and dried apricot are rich in beta-carotene. Dried mango has one of the highest vitamin A contents of any fruit; dried fig is rich in…

• Serves 3 · ¥380

• Cook time 10 min

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

Bell pepper and lily bulb terrine, bottarga and daikon stuffed into dried persimmon, grilled eel sushi, arrowhead bulb matsukaze, millet wheat-gluten cake glazed with sweet miso, flounder kombu roll

These are the appetizers. For the bell pepper and lily bulb terrine, you must let the mixture of yellow bell pepper and lily bulb cool completely…

Whiting tokusa-age — conger eel yawata-age, rich dashi, myoga

This time, I learned about "agemono" from Master Toru Sugai (Tokyo Kaikan Mitsubishi Club). I will be focusing on "Tokusaage."

Persimmon tofu dressing, bamboo-leaf grilled conger eel, monkfish liver bonito-flavored simmer, bamboo-leaf sushi

This is the hashi-osame, the finishing course before the rice. For the persimmon shira-ae, pour an appropriate amount of salt into thick soymilk and…

• ¥169

• Cook time 30 min