Mirukashi Salon

Experience Japan’s 72 Microseasons at Mirukashi Salon - AFAR

"Run by Prairie Stuart-Wolff with pottery by Hanako Nakazato, this intimate culinary retreat helps visitors tune into Japan’s seventy-two microseasons through food and craft. It stages small, immersive programs—seven sessions a year for up to seven guests—built around four-day itineraries that include hands-on cooking classes, foraging, soba-making, visits to a soy brewery, tea ceremony, and learning about the rice-harvesting cycle. Meals and demonstrations emphasize seasonality and local ingredients (temarizushi, roasted shishitos, bitter melon dressed with sesame, soft‑boiled eggs, homemade ume soda), everyday rituals (measuring rice with a masu, using saibashi), and a deep connection to landscape and community. The experience blends a copper-equipped kitchen, handmade objects that balance beauty and function, and Nakazato’s stoneware; sessions currently take place in the couple’s home but will move to a purpose-built, soothing space among tea plants in October 2024." - Elena Valeriote