This adorable old Japanese woman is 84 years old, and has been making nori maki since she was a little girl. Here she shows how to make saikuzushi, or festival sushi. This is considered an art form where rice is tinted different colors, sectioned off and rolled. When it is sliced, complex images are created. They say in this story that in that area, if a girl can’t make more than three of these rolls, she can’t marry!

Making saikuzushi is really hard, I have tried a couple of times and just gotten frustrated and the patterns have turned out looking nothing like art. I guess it takes a lot of practice. Good thing I am already married!