A5 Sendai NY Strip

• ORIGIN: Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
• FARM: Kawaguchi Farm (Lake Izunuma)
• GRADE: A5
• MARBLE SCORE: BMS 11-12
• BLOODLINE: Yasufukuhisa
• BRAND: Sendai Beef

Here's a fun stat: there are 24 wagyu farms in Miyagi Prefecture, and only TWO can call their beef “Sendai.” Kawaguchi Farm is one of them. So when this box shows up at your door, you're not just getting A5 from a region — you're getting A5 from one specific farm that's been earning that name the hard way for over 90 years.

Kawaguchi sits next to Lake Izunuma, a wetland sanctuary so important it's protected under international treaty. The farm runs about 700 head at a time, raises each one past 30 months, and hand-feeds them piece by piece. No machines. No shortcuts. The bloodline is Yasufukuhisa, one of Japan's most coveted, and the feed includes rice straw, beer lees, chaff, and a glutinous rice called Miyakoganemochi — which the farm grows themselves every year alongside local rice farmers. Manure goes back to the rice fields. Rice straw becomes cattle bedding. It's basically a closed-loop ecosystem with marbling as the byproduct.

The result is beef that tastes like one farm doing one thing extremely well. Sweet, clean fat. Dense marbling that melts at room temperature. The kind of umami that doesn't blur into “generic A5” — you can taste where it came from.

Sendai Beef has won first prize at the National Wagyu Fair three times. Kawaguchi is part of why.

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Each portioned piece is individually packaged and vacuum sealed. In order to maximize freshness during delivery, we blast freeze our cuts and ship them with dry ice in a reusable insulated box. Thawing is natural and may occur.

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