－ Gold and Silver Fortune －
photo：AKIRA MORIYASU
January（Mutsuki）
＜Flower Course＞
Matcha green tea and a monaka featuring the gentian flower crest of Sankō-in
A monaka is a wafer cake filled with red bean paste.
Nishime, or simmered food
Mountain yam rolls, boiled kōya-dofu (freeze-dried bean curd), burdock root with sesame dressing, and boiled pumpkin, garnished with a celestial bamboo leaf.
Cup-steamed tofu
Gold and silver fortune
Cumquat, ginkgo nuts and Japanese butterburs. This is a “lucky charm” dish, with each item having an auspicious aspect to its Japanese name (gold for cumquats, silver for gingko nuts, and fortune for butterburs).
Kōei Tofu
Cherrywood-smoked tofu. This signature dish was perfected by this temple’s abbess Kōei.
Kogarashi (literal translation: cold winter wind)
An eggplant dish, in the Kyoto style of oden (also known as a dengaku), with miso on top, and sprinkled with yuzu peel from the temple garden. The name of this dish was conceived by abbess Kōei after a biwa belonging to the empress-turned-nun Taira no Tokuko, because the shape of the sliced eggplant is similar to that of the biwa.
Sip-soup (suimono, or clear soup)
Rice with adzuki beans
Pickles
＜Moon Course＞
In addition to the dishes listed above, there is an oden of millet fu. Fu is gluten.
＜Snow Course＞
In addition to the dishes listed above, there is deep-fried arrowhead bulbs with seaweed (or konjak tempura); and Takenogosho-style sip tea.
*Dishes are subject to change and may not be exactly according to the monthly menus.
All courses are available by reservation only.