I've always thought it strange that most sushi restaurants don't provide chopstick rests. Sure, you can always balance your chopsticks on the corner of your bento box or, maybe, on your wasabi mixing dish, but given the attention to presentation detail in a typical sushi restaurant, you'd kind of expect chopstick rests. At least, I do.

The real answer is to participate : the humble chopstick wrapper is a versatile tool that can make a wide variety of healthy chopstick rests. A few well-crafted folds and the wrapper can function as a high-art rest or as a sturdy platform. Don't limit youself to scrunching it up into a tent that collapses as soon as you rest your chopsticks on it, there is a rich world to discover.

So when you're waiting for your next bento box of sushi at lunch, don't discard that chopstck wrapper! Engage in some practical, useful origami or as I've come to call it: sushigami.

This website is about sushgami . Actually it is about many things. It is about my attempts to learn the craft of sushigami since I could find no sources on it, it is also about my experience of trying to write, layout, and publish a book on sushigami, and, the best part is that, in true web-inspired openness, it is a work-in-progress in which you can see all the steps and mistakes I make along the way in my blog. I'm still working on it, feel free to drop in.