SALT, RICE, RYTHM

Meet JUNKI, a.k.a. EIWA.NO5. He is the flow.

JUNKI a.k.a. EIWA.NO5, buying manager at Eiwa Marine Products, Inc., keeps a quiet ritual. Before stepping onto the floor where heat and cold meet in equal measure, he makes a stop in Tsukiji—just for one thing: a musubi packed with salted sujiko.

Not just any salted salmon roe. The kind that stains the rice red and bites like ocean wind. The kind that jolts you awake, not with caffeine, but with brine and memory.

Sujiko sticks, jolts, hits your spine. Umami floods in — then salt slams you flat.

“If you’re working through sweat from sunrise,” he says, “you need something that hits hard, and fast.”

This is no ordinary breakfast. It’s fuel for the ice-cold world of fish handling, where the body runs hot, even as hands numb with frost. Where the real work begins before the city stirs. Where a grain of salt is still sacred.

Nama Sujiko, Fresh Salmon Roe, Hokkaido

Facing the Sumida River, the Tsukiji floodgate, and the site where the Tsukiji Fish Market once stood.

A bite of sujiko musubi, the Rainbow Bridge behind — and in his gaze, the kind of calm that comes only from doing the same thing well, every single day. Junki is @eiwa.no5 — A bite of sujiko musubi, the Rainbow Bridge behind — and in his gaze, the kind of calm that comes only from doing the same thing well, every single day. Junki is @**eiwa.no5**

Next week, step into Junki’s domain—the loading docks. Where the temperature drops, and the tempo rises. Where the fish are cold, but the work burns warm.

Series: Meet JUNKI, a.k.a. EIWA.NO5. He is the flow.

Episode.1 Salt, Rice, and Rhythm

Episode.2 Shout & Whisper

Episode.3 Into the Cold

Episode.4 The Art of the Box

Episode.5 The Wasabi Weigh-In