Modern kind of nigirizushi (握り寿司), consisting of an oblong mound of rice with a slice of fish draped around it, turned common in Edo (contemporary Tokyo) in the 1820s or 1830s. One popular Tale from the origin of nigirizushi origins is of your chef Hanaya Yohei (1799–1858), who invented or perfected the technique in 1824 at his store in R