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The Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho, A Luxury Collection Hotel, is proud to announce a special banquet menu titled SUSHI KAISEKI ‘Sumi no Toki’, with a collaboration with an international fashion designer Hiroko Koshino and a tableware manufacturer Nikko Company. This special menu is supervised by Hiroko Koshino who also designed its exquisite tableware produced by Nikko Company. It will be served at WASHOKU 蒼天 SOUTEN restaurant at The Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho from 29 June to 30 September, 2018.

The dinner banquet, served from 5.30p.m. to 10.30p.m. every day during the promotion, showcases the skills of WASHOKU 蒼天 SOUTEN’s sushi chef Tetsuya Yamada. The banquet encapsulates the spirit of Japanese lifestyle and food culture, with Hiroko Koshino bringing her ideas to the dinner presentation as well as dishes served on herexquisite ‘Sumi no Toki’ line of dinnerware. This menu is also developed as a whole new SUSHI KAISEKI which differs from the typical traditional Kaiseki cuisine as it combines the elements of art making it an exciting culinary experience.

Koshino oversees the presentation of the dishes, which are prepared with a playful spirit and combine elements of both art and entertainment. Her dinnerware designs are based on the stark beauty of Japanese black ink (‘sumi’) and its capacity to spatter, smudge, and manifest countless other expressive characteristics. The density, momentum and flow of ink in Koshino’s creations provide a beautiful backdrop for the delicate beauty of Chef Yamada’s creations.
The Sumi no Toki collection is produced by a major Japanese ceramics manufacturer Nikko Company, which was founded in the city of Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture in 1908. The company still proudly produces all its ceramics at its own factory in Japan. Koshino’s ‘Sumi no Toki’ collaboration with Nikko is based on the concept of ‘tableware that chefs will be inspired by’. The pieces capture the sweep and motion of painting, along with the seep and flow of inks and paints. They also embody the Japanese aesthetic of ‘ma’ (space or void) within their plain white surfaces. The Sumi no Toki collection was awarded first place in the Licensed Collaboration Category of the Tableware International Awards of Excellence 2018.

Koshino is a graduate of the prestigious Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo, and has presented her collections in many fashion capitals worldwide, including Tokyo, Osaka, Paris, Rome and Shanghai. Her designs range from women’s and men’s apparel to lifestyle goods. In recent years, she has also been active as an artist, opening KH Galleries in Ginza in 2012 and Ashiya in 2013 to present her own work.

WASHOKU 蒼天 SOUTEN, on the 35th floor of the Prince Gallery hotel, combines traditional flavours and fresh ingredients to present an updated, contemporary take on Washoku, the traditional cuisine of Japan. Washoku has been included in the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and this style of cuisine is now enjoying a global boom in popularity. The SUSHI KAISEKI ‘Sumi no Toki’ banquet is a collaborative initiative designed to convey the appeal of Japanese culinary culture from an artistic perspective.