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Junki-sensei asks Master:
“So the problem was…
that it was nori?”
—
Master smiles.
“In a way.”
—
They had never
eaten nori.
—
The Photographer cuts in.
“Black and white photos
age well,
though.”
—
Junki-sensei laughs.
“But fish
need color.”
—
So the chefs
hid it.
Inside the rice.
—
An inside-out roll.
—
Inside-out.
Now the tide turns.
—
Continues.
—
More than color.
A Mechanist
walks into
Tokyo Kaikan.
Master Cuts
Act III

Then across the ocean we go. One rolled-up piece of sushi — and the whole world loses its mind. The California Roll is born. What used to stay inside Edo suddenly starts rolling toward the world. …Truth is, we only turned it inside out.
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