Tom already has a post here for chirashi zushi, which makes me very thankful since I don’t have to expound so much on what this is. At our house chirashi zushi is known as “lazyman’s sushi”, or the sushi that you’ll eat from a bowl, with chopsticks, instead of your hands, because Mom’s too lazy or too tired to wrap things up.
One such evening in the spring took me to the pages of

from Kikunoi’s Yoshihiro Murata, where I found this beautiful spring sushi, featuring such items as koya dofu and warabi (bracken fern).
This version, while not …read more