In 1993 Noriko Kuwabara started making sushi clocks. She thought she could just buy small sushi pieces and glue on a sushi tray, but ended up having to make every piece by hand.
Another Kazari maki-zushi video. This time it is the legendary Ken Kawasumi who makes Anpanman! Just ignore the music… Ahh. The skills!
As you probably have understood - I adore Sushi Art! Look at it! It is absolutely amazing! I found these Kazari Maki-zushi images when I went looking for sushi art. The Japan Foundation in Sydney Australia had an event about kazari maki-zushi this summer.
I find Sake labels very beautiful. I found an image from “The Book of Sake: A Connoisseur’s Guide
Here is another video that shows you how to make kasari maki, or fancy maki sushi as they call it here. I so wanna learn how to do this! Must practice. Must practice. 
I like to browse through Flickr just looking for inspiration. And I wanted to share some of that.
Mmmmmm. I am telling you - sushi IS ART! Enjoy!
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
E-bento.com (in Japanese only) also has an amazing collection of bentos. I love their beautiful artwork and borderline insane attention to detail.
There is a comic book in Japan called (something like) Sushi Chef Kirara’s Job. It’s about a girl brought up by a famous sushi chef after her mother dies when she is young. So she grows up in the sushi shop and learns everything there is to know about the job as a sushi chef and the ways of traditional sushi - old style. So - when the old man gets sick and must close the shop, she reopens it.
This application uses the GEO-tag in Flickr images and place it on a map (just the US). This then also subsequently shows sort of a heatmap over where people actually eat sushi! (…and takes pictures of, post it on Flickr with a geo-tag, I know - but still!). The map shows clearly that eating sushi is more of a coastal thing. Understandably, but it becomes very visible when put in a map like that. I love that! I like to view information from new angles like this. (You can of course look at other tag’s than sushi, but that’s all we are into, right? :))
