Sansho is known overseas as "Japanese pepper."
As its name suggests, it has been widely used as a spice in Japan since ancient times.
Sansho pepper has a punchy flavor and aroma, but surprisingly it goes well with a variety of dishes. 
Curry rice <br>Curry rice is not only delicious, but is also known to be good for your health.
The secret is in the spices.
The spices in curry are divided into those that add flavor or aroma, those that add spiciness, and those that give color.
Adding some sansho pepper, which stimulates the appetite, will make it even more delicious.
Curry is deliciously spicy, and this spiciness comes from the capsaicin in chili peppers and the piperine in pepper.
In fact, the spiciness of these spicy ingredients is different from that of Japanese pepper, so adding Japanese pepper gives curry rice a deeper flavor.
Dried small sardines <br>Dried small sardines are made by boiling baby sardines in salt water and drying them in the sun.
These small fish are packed full of flavor and have a salty taste, and are delicious either eaten as is or added to stir-fries.
In particular, the easy-to-make dried small sardines in tsukudani are a great accompaniment to rice. Dried small sardines are simmered in soy sauce, sake, mirin, and sugar, and when you add Japanese pepper to them, they add a refreshing aroma and spiciness, making them a perfect accompaniment to rice, as well as to alcohol. You can also add komatsuna or daikon leaves to dried small sardines, stir-fry them in sesame oil, and sprinkle on some powdered Japanese pepper to create a fragrant furikake.
This nutritious dried small sardine furikake has a nice spicy kick from the Japanese pepper, making it a great dish to eat with rice. 
Tonkatsu <br>Crispy fried tonkatsu is delicious when eaten as is, but you can also enjoy different flavors by dipping it in different things.
Some people eat it with the classic tonkatsu sauce, as well as grated daikon radish, lemon, ponzu sauce, salt, mustard, etc. If you're looking for a slightly different and delicious way to eat tonkatsu, we recommend Sansho pepper.
Sprinkle some Japanese pepper on hot, freshly fried pork cutlet to release a refreshing citrus scent that will whet your appetite.
You can also pour a sweet tonkatsu sauce over it and sprinkle some Japanese pepper on top; the combination of the rich sweetness of the sauce and the spiciness of the Japanese pepper will bring out the flavor of the meat.
Miso Soup <br>The taste of miso soup changes greatly depending on the ingredients, but adding condiments can change the taste, texture, and aroma.
When you think of condiments to put in miso soup, you might think of green onions, ginger, myoga ginger, and yuzu peel, but sansho pepper is also recommended.
There are many different kinds of miso, but the one we recommend in particular is red miso, which has a high salt content and a rich flavor due to being aged for a long time.
If you add sansho pepper to white miso, which has a mellow flavor, you may find the taste and aroma to be too strong.
However, if the miso soup is made with red miso, which has a deep flavor, the flavor of the sansho pepper will not be overpowered, and the two ingredients will complement each other beautifully.
If you sprinkle some sansho pepper on seafood miso soup, such as sardine or horse mackerel meatball miso soup, squid miso soup, or mackerel miso soup, the unpleasant odor will be eliminated and the soup will taste even better.
Eel <br>Eel and sansho pepper are such a perfect combination that it is said that "eel is synonymous with sansho pepper, and sansho pepper is synonymous with eel."
Cookbooks written in the Muromachi period contain passages that suggest that eel was eaten with Japanese pepper.
The combination of the sweet and salty sauce and the spiciness of the Japanese pepper is excellent, and the pungent, refreshing aroma of the Japanese pepper will whet your appetite.
Fatty grilled eel is said to be effective in recovering from fatigue, but it can also be a heavy meal.
Therefore, adding Japanese pepper, which stimulates gastrointestinal activity, to your meal may help relieve indigestion.
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Yamamoto Katsunosuke Shoten, a Kishu Sansho specialty store founded in 1880 in Wakayama Prefecture