Sushi Kitchen
The catalog

The twelve families

Every roll belongs to exactly one family, and each family is named for a kind of sushi. The name is not decoration: it says what shape the work has. Hosomaki is thin and single-purpose; futomaki is thick and holds a lot; chirashi is scattered, and reads what everything else leaves behind.

A combo or a platter draws from more than one family — that is what makes it a composition rather than a roll. Each family page lists its own rolls and the compositions that contain them.