Japan Foundation president reaching India to inaugurate exhibition – I Love Sushi
Kazuyoshi Umemoto, a former Ambassador of Japan to Italy will on a 3-day visit to India to launch traveling exhibition.
NEW DELHI: Having traveled to various Indian cities as well as across the world in many countries, the grand “I Love Sushi” exhibition is finally reaching Delhi at the India International Centre. Kazuyoshi Umemoto, a former Ambassador of Japan to Italy who will be on a 3-day visit to India, will inaugurating the exhibition on February 26. “I Love Sushi” is a collaborative effort among the Japan Foundation New Delhi, the Embassy of Japan, and IIC. Sushi is a representative example of Japanese food, which has been inscribed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, and is now widely popular in many parts of the world under the name SUSHI as a simple, beautiful and refined healthy food.
This exhibition is an opportunity for the public to experience sushi, which has become one of Japan’s most popular foods and it aims to introduce the richness of Japanese food culture through sushi. The opening will be followed by a sushi demonstration by the chef of EBISU, which recently opened its second outlet serving authentic Japanese cuisine in Saket.
Visitors can look forward to knowing all about ‘Sushi’ via posters, photographs, static and working models and audio-visuals. Please note that it is an informative exhibition about the journey of ‘Sushi’ and ‘Sushi’ will not be available for eating at this exhibition.
The traveling exhibition is usually organized in Asian cities which have the presence of a Japan Consulate or the Japan Embassy. Pune was the first city to get the distinction of hosting this exhibition even though it does not have a Japan Consulate or a Japan Embassy. One can watch the rich tapestry of Edo-style Sushi culture, where the iconic ‘nigirizushi’ was born during the Edo period, which is considered the golden era for ‘Sushi’ aficionados.
Before this this exhibition has traveled to Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru in India.
The exhibition was also hosted at the Spanish-Japanese Cultural Center of the University of Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain), National Museum of History of Moldiva (Chisinau, Moldiva), National History Museum of Romania (Bucharest, Romania), Japan Creative Centre, Embassy of Japan in Singapore (Singapore), International Caravanserai of Culture of Ikuo Hirayama (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism (Budapest, Hungary), Stone Chronicle Museum (Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan), The Japan Cultural Institute in Rome (Rome, Italy), Tbilisi Historical Museum (Tbilisi, Georgia), Turkmenistan Museum of Fine Arts (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan), and The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne (Cologne, Germany).
