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Fig with sesame cream, salmon pressed hakata-style, grilled pharaoh cuttlefish with basil, smoked pike conger deep-fried and rolled around burdock, grilled whiting sandwich with mysid-shrimp soy flavor and aromatic vegetables, autumn salmon steamed yoro-style, eel roll, herring roe on kelp with an egg-yolk mustard sauce

For the appetizer's Fig with Sesame Cream, the figs discolor the moment they are bruised even slightly, so we use fresh, not-too-ripe fruit. The…

Matsuwa Mackerel, Sesame-Miso Cream Bake

‘Sesame-Miso Cream Bake’ is a grilled dish built around regional ingredients, stylishly fusing simmered miso-mackerel with miso-fried eggplant — a…

• Serves 1 · ¥450

• Cook time 1 hr

Blackthroat seaperch grilled in a miso-yuzu marinade (chestnut, maitake, black fig)

Rather than the method of marinating the blackthroat seaperch in the seasoning broth, preparing it by grilling it and finishing with the sauce poured…

• Serves 1 · ¥2,000

• Cook time 20 min

Mochi-textured abalone with persimmon vinegar, Tamba chestnuts simmered in coffee, autumn ayu with water-pepper miso, walnut tofu wrung in cloth, sea urchin jelly with yam bulbils, young kuruma prawns, thin-sliced burdock, jade-green ginkgo nuts, cuttlefish grilled with salted fish innards, moon-viewing lily-bulb dumplings

This is the appetizer course, and I put particular effort into it. For the abalone in the mochi-textured abalone with persimmon vinegar dressing, it…

Seasonal colors (persimmon terrine, potato wrapped in yuba and grilled, stone-wall egg terrine, purple mountain yam nerikiri, roe-bearing ayu simmered and steeped)

This is a seasonal-color course making use of autumn ingredients. For the Persimmon Terrine, I used in-season persimmons to make a persimmon set…

• Serves 1 · ¥400

• Cook time 1 hr

Autumn cream-cheese terrine with chestnut, chrysanthemum, and walnut, Pacific saury rolled into a thin crescent moon, ginkgo cracker, barracuda pressed with chrysanthemum, duck steamed nanban-style

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

Pacific saury simmered with shiso, persimmon and cheese mallet-shaped roll, amber chestnut, mallard duck and kabocha in a distant-mountains presentation, chrysanthemum greens dressed with crab innards, shrimp and small sea bream chrysanthemum-style sushi, monkfish liver egg-yolk grilled

For the Pacific saury (sanma) simmered with shiso: first the head, fins, and scales are removed from the saury and it is cut into chunks. It is then…

Barracuda grilled Tanba-style, monkfish liver nest-style, chicken gizzard with chrysanthemum dressing, maple-leaf naruto-swirl fried in a bread-crumb coating, soba sushi, fig deep-fried in a sesame coating, namerō crepe

This is the clear-soup course. For the mochi-wrapped oyster, I clean raw oysters and simmer them sweet-and-salty, the way you would simmer a…

• ¥950

• Cook time 1 hr

Kumquat and egg miso-marinade, chestnut in its spiky burr shape, persimmon shinjo, grilled ginkgo nuts, acorn-shaped sweet bean, stone-roasted sweet potato, sweet potato in maple-leaf shape, sweet potato in ginkgo-leaf shape

Based on the menu we normally serve our guests, since it was October, I added playful touches to the appetizer course, such as styling the whole…

Persimmon and turnip in a binro-style dressing, kabosu-shell cup with seared kombu-cured pufferfish, chestnut-burr mound of white-puffed deep-fried sweet chestnut paste, crab cake baked with a poppy-seed-studded cracked top, roe-bearing ayu kelp roll, stone-wall-arranged yam bulbils, skewered

For the appetizer's seared kombu-cured fugu, I take fugu that has been kombu-cured in the usual way, sear the surface, and serve it together with a…

Autumn mackerel pressed into a kimono-shaped sushi, Pacific saury simmered Arima-style with sansho pepper, pinecone-cut arrowhead bulb, chestnut cracker, yam-bulbil fish-paste dumpling, persimmon wrapped paper-fold-style, persimmon-shaped quail egg, ginkgo-leaf-cut taro, maple-leaf-cut carrot, kuruma prawn deep-fried in a straw-bundle shape, pine-needle soba

Ball-shaped deep-fry, octopus crisp, chestnut simmered in the inner skin, matsutake rice-cracker-crumb deep-fry

●Mari-Age: shinjo of choice is hollowed out, filled with a core of daikon radish, shaped into a ball, coated with somen noodles, deep-fried, and…

Yuzu Cup, Snow Crab in Grated Daikon, Grilled and Marinated Kuruma Prawn, Oyster Grilled with Shichimi Pepper, Persimmon and Bottarga Mountain Yam Roll, Miso-Grilled Lily Bulb, Deep-Fried Chestnut

For the appetizer course's grilled and marinated kuruma prawn, the kuruma prawn is soaked in sake-salt water to bring out its aroma, then grilled and…

Tilefish tamba-yaki, yubeshi, squid momiji-yaki

This is the grilled course. For the tilefish tamba-yaki, the tilefish is rinsed clean, and — since this is a Tamba-themed dish — chestnuts have their…

Squid Genpei-yaki, Hamo Senbei, Persimmon-Shaped Carrot, Jellied Whelk, Sun-Dried Whiting, Chestnut Kamaboko, Mackerel Sushi, Salt-Roasted Ginkgo Nuts, Pacific Saury Yawata-Maki, Ayu Kombu Roll

For the appetizer squid genpei-yaki, golden cuttlefish is cut into a sashimi block and split into two sheets, then salted. The squid is then…

Sanbō-stand assortment: shrimp and lily bulb temari-zushi, squid temari-zushi, and more

For the shrimp and lily bulb temari-zushi, the lily bulb and Japanese mountain yam are steamed and then worked into a smooth paste in a double boiler…

Matsuwa mackerel and shiitake sandwich-grilled with yuzu miso, kettle-boiled shrimp grilled with sesame salt, chicken tenderloin rolled with burdock, chrysanthemum-cut yam grilled with golden egg yolk, chrysanthemum-leaf-cut yam grilled with uni

For the grilled fish course's Matsuwa mackerel and shiitake sandwich-grilled dish, mackerel landed at Matsuwa fishing port is famous under the…

Persimmon, Kyoho grape, and chestnut tofu-dressed salad, grilled Pacific saury sushi, avocado with salted rice malt, bush-clover-themed sweet, yuzu-scented grilled sesame tofu

Spiny lobster grilled with egg yolk and salt-fermented bonito viscera, wagyu beef rolled with burdock, wheel-shaped wheat gluten, steak-style

This is a grilled dish. For the Ise lobster grilled with egg yolk and shuto, since the lobster meat becomes springy and hard to bite through when…

• ¥1,720

• Cook time 2 hr

Butterfish Grilled in Saikyo Miso, Matsutake Wrapped in Wagyu Loin, Chrysanthemum-Cut Turnip, Chestnuts Simmered in Syrup

Salmon roe with grated daikon and sablefish-carrot sandwich, rein-twist sushi, turban shell tossed with chrysanthemum petals, salt-grilled crossbred duck, salt-roasted new-season ginkgo nuts, new-season chestnuts simmered in a savory broth, white melon cut in a ginkgo-leaf motif and kombu-cured, Ishikawa taro steamed in its skin

This is the celebratory course. Meiji Jingu Shrine, Jingu Gaien, and the Meiji Memorial Hall are together known as the "All Jingu." One of the three…

Chestnut and fig in basil-sesame cream (Japanese Cuisine and Yakuzen)

Seven or eight years ago, I brought to life a recipe by medicinal-cuisine specialist Momoyo Taniguchi, and it sold extremely well. Seeing that…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Kenchin-style grilled beltfish sandwich, Ashigara beef roast beef, spinach leaf bread, ball arrangement

This is a grilled seasonal assortment course. For the mixed-vegetable-filled grilled beltfish sandwich, tofu and raw white fish paste are combined…

• Serves 10 · ¥350

• Cook time 20 min