Art Post: Fairy Sushi

[minoanmiss]

So this post is [hopefully] a multimedia extravaganza!


So I've been making my haphazard way through Emmymadeinjapan's back catalogue. I came to the single grain of rice sushi challenge:

"Single Grain of Rice SUSHI Challenge - Kurashiki Central Hospital" (Watch on YouTube)

and when looking up this practice I came to this amazingly charming and informative article about a restaurant which calls itself the birthplace of the practice. Look at these tiny beauties:



So because I'm ridiculous me, I couldn't resist the thought "this would be perfect sushi for a fairy."



Here's the sushi platter by itself because I had so much fun drawing it:



(Yes, those are flower petals on the side -- a good sushi chef customizes the serving to the customer. :D And the hand roll is to gingicat's credit.)

This whole post is dedicated to bikergeek, who first introduced me to sushi. *beams*

Comments

[corylea]

*laugh* Sushi for a fairy! You're so cute! *hug*

[minoanmiss]

I try my best. :) *hugs you back*

[rachelmanija]

How wonderful! I never heard of tiny sushi before but now I have to go to that restaurant the next time I'm in Japan.

I love your fairy sushi platter. That is the cutest thing ever.

[minoanmiss]

I realllllly look forward to your report of that restaurant. :D And I'm really glad this pleased you!

[darkmarcy]

So cute!

[minoanmiss]

*curtseys* I try. :)

[ljwrites]

ZOMG so adorable!! Those amazing details!

[minoanmiss]

I almost can't take credit! They just kept occurring to me and I kept drawing and giggling!

[china_shop]

So because I'm ridiculous me

"So because I'm adorable..."

(Fixed that for you.)

That sushi platter is gorgeous, it's almost making me hungry! <3

[minoanmiss]

*blushes and hugs you*

[lb_lee]

That is the most Japanese cuisine-y thing I have ever heard of. And I love your cute little sushi fairy.

[minoanmiss]

I am a sucker for miniature precision, so I couldn't resist. I'm really glad you like this, not least since you're an artist. :)

[lb_lee]

Your colors are just so bright and vibrant. Everything in your art looks so happy!

[bikergeek]

This whole post is dedicated to bikergeek, who first introduced me to sushi. *beams*

Really? I had forgotten that. But thank you. :D

[minoanmiss]

Yep, you. :)
*smooch*

[cjsmith]

Okay, that is black-belt-level adorable. ♥

[minoanmiss]

*blushes so much* Thank you. :)

[dreamkist]

That is so freaking adorable!

[minoanmiss]

Bwee, thank you!

[acelightning]

Even though I can't eat seafood, I follow a YouTube channel with a Japanese expert sushi chef (Hiroyuki Tanada). He sometimes includes edible flowers or petals in some of his creations - and occasionally decorates them with flakes of edible gold leaf. I'm going to leave a comment about "single grain of rice" sushi on his next video, and hope he takes the challenge.

Your drawing is even more adorable kawaii than the actual micro-sushi itself! Of course fish roe works well - just one tiny shiny bead-like fish egg balanced on a grain of rice. But one little flake of fish balances just as well. And the flower petals are a wonderful touch - maybe someone could wrap a whole petal around a morsel of seafood and a grain of rice, for a different kind of hand roll! And I love the charming sushi chef with a flower over one ear (and a chef's toque!), holding the little platter with chopsticks. I love the fact that the fairy herself seems to be of Caucasian extraction (my Italian-American daughter-in-law loves sushi), and her dress is beautiful.

Japanese kami aren't exactly fairies, and they're not imagined as being tiny compared to humans. What a marvelous crossover from one culture's fantasies to another!

I admire your imagination!

[minoanmiss]

I'm so glad you introduced me to him! I love his channel. I love watching the process by which animals become food, all the better to respect what they give us and make the most of it.

And you always spot my favorite details. :D I'm really glad you like this.

(And I put a PACKAGE in the mail for you today!)

[acelightning]

I'm so glad you like Hiro! His knife skills are legendary - he holds a Guinness World Record for the most slices of cucumber ever produced by one blindfolded chef. And a lot of his food is very imaginative - making a dessert sushi roll out of Krispy Kreme doughnuts. And I understand what you mean about seeing how an animal becomes food, when he cuts up a fish, or takes apart a lobster, although I do think that he took things too far when he used the isopod. Maybe you and I will meet in his comments ;-)

I just got a package from you the other day - the fridge magnets. You are so dear and sweet, dear sweet friend!

[sabotabby]

Oh my gosh, tiniest sushi!

[minoanmiss]

I was overwhelmed by the miniature precision! I had to draw something!

[cellio]

That's delightful!

[minoanmiss]

*beams* Thank you. :D

[ilthit]

Aww!

[minoanmiss]

*beams* I'm always delighted when you like my attempts at art. :D

[sugarandlime]

oh my goodness this is the cutest entire thing. Now I want to write a story about that fairy and her friend the tiny sushi chef!

[cjsmith]

Oooo, and now I want to read that story!

[minoanmiss]

I would LOVE that if you did.

[amaebi]

I wonder whether one of the waterier sorts of fairy would like it even more?

[minoanmiss]

I was thinking this could be an unusual treat for this forest fairy. Maybe she's the delighted guinea pig for the young sushi chef's training. :)

Remember my picture of fairies and a hobbit and a mermaid at lunch? My idea there was kind of like this one, in that the diners would get food unusual to their element.

[acelightning]

Somebody has to feed chocolate to a mermaid!

[amaebi]

Of *course* your fairies like food that's exotic to them. :)

[minoanmiss]

They're foodies like me!

(ahahaha now I shoudl write about The Picky Fairy)

[amaebi]

I wait with bated breath.

[ilyena_sylph]

That is ridiculously adorable and I love the art you did! So pretty!

[minoanmiss]

*beams* Thank you very very much!

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

Aside from the nicely imaginative (as usual) artwork, about the only thing I can say for the sushi in question is that the portion would be small enough to probably not kick off my allergy. I am allergic to anything that was happy living its life in water.

Also the video that I saw yesterday is back, having been supplanted for a while by a 500 Internal Server Error, followed by a long string of hexadecimal gibberish.

Ann O.

[minoanmiss]

Nah, if you're allergic even one of these could set you off. Better not to risk it.

I just watched the video again as well as some of her others. I didn't get any errors.

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

Oops. I spoke too soon. The hexadecimal gibberish is back. No one else has seen this?

Ann O.

[hammercock]

I love your drawings of fairy sushi! :)

[minoanmiss]

beams Thank you :)

[mific]

A fairy feast!!

[minoanmiss]

Exactly! I love wee things. :)

[mekare]

Awww! I love the fairy's outfit! Anmd that sushi platter is making me hungry. Yum! So many lovely details, thanks for providing a detailed view.

[minoanmiss]

*curtseys* I had too much fun with the details on this one. :)