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Prologue

Everyday life is full of hidden surprises that are waiting to be discovered. I like to develop my own original style by working with images people are familiar with so that they’ll see something new in the things they already know.

Japan is a place where you can buy anything in a shop, so though everyone there has eaten a sushi roll, relatively few people (including me, at one time) had ever made one themselves. One day, I saw a sushi roll with a pattern on the surface and thought it would be very interesting to draw “freehand” on that surface. So, I gave it a try.

But when I actually started to make the sushi roll, I found that the pattern on the surface wasn’t always what I expected. This was because a pattern’s structure depends on the amount of vinegared rice used, the way the ingredients are cut, the layout of the ingredients, the pressure applied when rolling, and so on. I started thinking that this very “uncontrollability” in drawing patterns could actually help me reach my goal.

To this day, we enjoy being surprised by unexpected lines and shapes emerging on the cut surface. Then, we enjoy eating it.

To express the joy in this process I named these entertaining sushi rolls the “Smiling Sushi Roll.” It carries the message of “making it with a smile, viewing it with a smile, and eating it with a smile.”

And as I promote this “edible art” made of rice and seaweed, I intend to keep on challenging common knowledge and conventional ideas.