Washokuzai Calendar

Japanese Seafood by season

A twelve-month calendar of 100 Japanese Seafood, showing when each is at its best and when it is in the market. Each has its own page with how to choose it, how to cook it and where it comes from.

Ingredient Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Japanese horse mackerel
White trevally
Japanese sardine
Pacific herring
Halfbeak
Gizzard shad
Icefish
Pacific saury
Chub mackerel
Japanese amberjack
Greater amberjack
Skipjack tuna
Pacific bluefin tuna
Yellowfin tuna
Swordfish and marlin
Flying fish
Red seabream
Yellowback seabream
Golden threadfin bream
Striped beakfish
Spotted knifejaw
Spottedtail morwong
Chicken grunt
Blackspot emperor
Yellowback fusilier
Largescale blackfish
Flathead grey mullet
Japanese sea bass
Red cornetfish
Bluefin searobin
Sevenband grouper
Red-spotted grouper
Longtooth grouper
Marbled rockfish
Japanese rockfish
Devil stinger
Manybar goatfish
Sailfin poacher
Olive flounder
Marbled flounder
Roughscale sole
Tilefish
Blackthroat seaperch
Japanese bluefish
Greeneye
Kichiji rockfish
Splendid alfonsino
Japanese Spanish mackerel
Largehead hairtail
Japanese barracuda
Sailfin sandfish
Atka mackerel
Pacific cod
Chum salmon
Japanese smelt
Sweetfish
Japanese eel
Daggertooth pike conger
Whitespotted conger
Threadsail filefish
Black scraper
Tiger pufferfish
Monkfish
Shishamo smelt
Whitebait
Japanese common squid
Spear squid
Kisslip cuttlefish
Firefly squid
Common octopus
Kuruma prawn
Japanese spiny lobster
Botan shrimp
Northern shrimp
Sakura shrimp
Snow crab
Red king crab
Horsehair crab
Pacific oyster
Rock oyster
Sakhalin surf clam
Japanese cockle
Pen shell
Blood clam
Manila clam
Hard clam
Razor clam
Scallop
Geoduck clam
Japanese geoduck
Turban shell
Whelk
Abalone
Freshwater clam
Sea urchin
Salmon roe
Sea pineapple
Wakame seaweed
Mozuku seaweed
Nori seaweed

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