It is Tokyo of the Edo era that a sushi bar of the nigiri-zushi was born. I started as the stand which general public stood casually at first, and ate it, and was done which was born. Because sushi at the time was not bite-sized like now and was the size such as the rice ball, there seemed to be many styles to eat two one like snacks when the small was hungry.

I stand, and a stand of the eating becomes the shop, and home delivery of cooked foods is mainstream

When nigiri-zushi spread among the people of Edo, the sushi bar to set up the shop from a stand came up, but what the visitor stood, and enough amount of food, the craftsman sat straight, and grasped sushi was still common. If it became about time when it, a sushi bar took down sushi to the vendor of the town in the latter period of the Meiji, and opportunities that I came that a visitor brought a plate and bought sushi increased, and a form of the home delivery of cooked foods to deliver to the place asked for sushi which received orders beforehand before long became mainstream.

The tradition of “snacks” continued for a long time

By the way, originally sushi did not provide liquor rather than a meal for a long time at the sushi bar because it was snacks-like handling. As for a style of one cup having spread out slightly to pick up sushi after it entered at the end of the Taisho era in the Showa era that liquor came to be provided at a sushi bar these days. At a sushi bar in the downtown, home delivery of cooked foods seemed to be the center at the sushi bar where a lot of visitors who ate in a shop came off from the downtown. However, sushi was strong in flavor called “the food except three meals of the morning lunch evening”, and a tradition to be the food such as snacks born in the Edo era was succeeded even after the Showa era began.

The reason that a teacup has a big

A teacup taken out at a sushi bar has many large-sized things, but the reason is related with sushi in the Edo era having begun from a stand. Because there was only one craftsman standing in the shop, it is said to the sushi bar at the time that I prepared for a big teacup to omit trouble to change tea.

Appearance of the sushi plate

It is around 1935 that the sushi plate almost the symbol of the home delivery of cooked foods of sushi came up. I used a plate of the china or a bowl or filled the nest of boxes which a visitor brought from a house with sushi till then. Because the home delivery of cooked foods at the time progressed by foot or bicycle, it was heavy, and it was light, and the sushi plate which it was easy to carry seemed to spread out not the china which was easy to be broken.

The fatty tuna was eaten from prewar days

The fatty tuna of the tuna which is popular in a sushi topping. It has an opinion to become after the war that a Japanese came to eat, but documents that, in fact, I am liked between last part of Taisho era and some people, and it was eaten are left. Not a name called “fatty tuna”, it was called “the horsefly” which meant fatty meat in those days.

Change of the sushi bar

With postwar economic growth, the sushi bar came to strongly have the implication as the place of the society. Families enjoy sushi to the full, and the top and the politician of the company use it for a business talk and a meeting and. A showcase of the refrigeration was prepared in front of the counter, and it was about time when this, and the style to have you grasp sushi referring to the favorite material settled.

A first Japanese conveyor belt sushi restaurant was founded in Osaka in 1958 (Showa 33) and spread afterwards in Japan. The bipolarization of the sushi bar is advancing to the popularity of the high quality sushi shop which a first-class craftsman grasps more and more firmly now while the conveyor belt sushi restaurant which I can eat opens at a price reasonable in sequence casually.