I like cakes. Cakes made to look like sushi is even better! This “cake” for instance - is covered in buttercream frosting, it has fondant for the wasabi, chopsticks, platter seaweed and the “fish” sits on top of molded rice crispy treats. The soy sauce is chocolate syrup with a little bit of crushed nuts on top, orange gel frosting for the caviar and the sushi rolls are sliced Twinkies filled with sliced strawberries and kiwis. The outside of the rolls are made of fondant which is then rolled in green sugar confetti for shine. The ginger is colored white chocolate flakes. Fantastic! Great imagination. Here are some more sushi inspired cakes:
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I really get to stretch my Japanese in this video. Ahh. I love kazari maki-zushi!
This just looks so simple, but is so beautiful! And really - it is NOT that easy either. I have tried…
March 3rd is a traditional celebration day of girls called “Hina-matsuri in Japan.” The color of pink symbolizes the day and in department stores, everything turns pink and you can find colorful dolls for sale.
Here are some dolls that I found on PingMag, which is meant to be the emperor and empress having a relaxed sushi! Very elaborate as fits an Emperor! Imagine having these as a kid. Ooooh.
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These pictures I found on Flickr were taken during something called they called “Freestyle sushi master competition”, on December 6th 2005. It looks fun! I think I will have to hold a local version of this in Oslo very soon! Who would want to participate? 
A beautiful picture of the Yamada father and son. The photograph is taken by Bruce Osborn, who has a wonderful series of photographs of parents and children called Oyako.
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!
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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? :))
