While looking for some nutrition data on sushi, I found the Sushi Encyclopedism. Guess what gave me a hint that this wasn't written by someone in Ohio?
The site isn't flashy, but it is FULL of sushi information. There is a sushi glossary in Japanese, English, French and German with over 300 terms.
There is a section on sushi etiquitte with advice on which side gets the soy sauce, and whether you should eat your nigiri sushi fish down, fish up, or vertical. There are how-to sections, a discussion of sushi in Ukiyoe, and even a section on sushi comics (the book type not the stand-up type). It is a great site. Check it out.
The Kanji characters above are for "fish" and "delicious," which means "sushi" in Japanese. The more commonly used set of characters to the right spells out "su" and "shi" phonetically.
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