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Bamboo shoot three-color grill, kuruma prawn, Japanese whiting, beef loin, and angelica tree shoot crisp-fried in light white batter

The grilled course is the bamboo shoot three-color grill. The bamboo shoot is prepared in the usual way, brushed with bonito-infused Tosa soy sauce…

Bamboo-Sheath Grilled Tilefish Wakasa-yaki

The grilled course is presented grilled and served on a bamboo sheath. For the tilefish wakasa-yaki, there is a long-standing rule that it must be…

Horse Meat Kombu Roll

For the simmered dish, horse-meat kombu roll uses the most prized part of the horse — the cheek meat. It has a fair amount of fat, is toro-like, and…

Bamboo shoots, spikenard, and horsetail shoots dressed with sansho leaf, and more

As the spring vegetable course, the bamboo shoots, udo, and horsetail shoots dressed with kinome: remove the bitterness from the bamboo shoots and…

Bamboo Shoot, Wakame, and Other Dishes

For the simmered course, the Ise lobster is done gusoku-ni style, finished with a little sea urchin stirred in at the end.

Whale belly cut in sweet-savory simmer

This is a simmered dish. Rather than red meat, I make it with unesu, the cut normally used for bacon. With bacon, it's common to remove the skin…

• ¥900

• Cook time 2 hr

Two Kinds of Bamboo Shoots

Bamboo Shoot and Warabi in Tochu-cha Miso Dressing

For the bamboo shoot and bracken fern in tochu-cha (Eucommia tea) miso dressing, I simmer the bamboo shoot and bracken fern in a light seasoning…

Roasted bamboo shoot rice, bamboo shoot's tender inner sheath

The rice course is roasted bamboo shoot rice. The base of the bamboo shoot is grated on a coarse oni-oroshi grater, simmered in a dark, strongly…

Snowmelt-style clear soup

This is the snowmelt-style soup course. I am often asked the difference between two bases: shinjo, a fish-paste dumpling, and hanpen, a steamed fish…

Spring Vegetables Clear-Soup Course

This features seasonal bamboo shoot, mountain asparagus, butterbur, and bracken fern shoots, with carrot and sansho leaf added for color. Each…

Bamboo Shoot in Soy Milk Broth

Clam and new bamboo shoot grilled with sansho leaf

For the grilled course, February and March are a season when shellfish are especially delicious, so instead of fish, I brushed hamaguri clams with a…

Bamboo shoot rolled in daikon, taro, baby octopus, rapeseed blossoms

The simmered dish is the standard one we usually serve, but rather than a light seasoning, we gave it a firm, well-defined flavor.

Salt-grilled live moroko / basted-grilled bamboo shoot

For the grilled course's salt-grilled live moroko, we used moroko farmed in Chiba Prefecture. They're arranged in a small charcoal hand-brazier to…

Crane's-egg taro, bamboo shoot shaped as a longevity turtle, zodiac-themed kombu roll

The conger eel head in the sweet-simmered dish carries the idea that 'this sweet-simmered stock is based on bonito dashi, but I also use dashi drawn…

Sea bream, kombu-cured

This is starter five (Suo-Oshima). Suo-Oshima, known as 'the Hawaii of Japan,' enjoys a fine climate, and it is said that virtually any fish can be…

Tokkuri-mushi, Crab Shinjo, Oyster

Inside the tokkuri-mushi (steamed in a sake-flask-shaped vessel) are crab shinjo, oyster wrapped in napa cabbage, bamboo shoot, and a few other…

Fragrant Grilled New Bamboo Shoot

Thin kuzu-thickened broth / thinly sliced bamboo shoot

For guests who are drinking sake, filling up on soup means they can't drink as much, yet they still want some soup somewhere along the way. With that…

Shark fin and pounded-rice skewer soup chazuke

This rice course, shark fin and kiritanpo soup chazuke, wraps sanchi (loosened shark fin) into the core of the kiritanpo, then tops it with shark fin…

Snow crab yuba roll

Shark Fin Tofu

For the soup-bowl course, shark fin tofu, tofu and fish paste (surimi) are thinned with kelp dashi and formed into dumplings, then wrapped in shark…

Tilefish grilled with bamboo shoot and wakame

This is the grilled course. On the recommendation of a senior colleague, I tried my hand at a grilled cheese 'treasure ship,' a festive New Year…