How about some 'nappy sushi' for your next baby shower?

A Japanese company has put a local spin on the popular 'nappy cake' baby shower gift.

Diaper sushi is nappies made to look like sushi

Diaper sushi has become a big hit in Japan. Source: Facebook/Diaper Sushi

If you've ever been to a baby shower, you've probably seen the parents-to-be given a nappy cake - a bunch of cloth nappies designed to look like a cake. 

Now a Japanese company has come up with its own version of the popular present: 'diaper sushi' (or nappy sushi to us in Australia), which it claims is "more memorable than a diaper cake". 

Diaper sushi has been created by Wire Mama, the publisher of a child-care information magazine in the city of Tokushima, and features typical sushi varieties presented in an authentic paulownia box, the Japan Times reports.

All of the items are made from products that would be useful to new parents.

For example, Ebi is recreated by using white nappies as rice and pink striped bibs as the prawn on top. Uni is a small orange microfibre mop representing sea urchin. Ikura, or salmon roe, is actually an ice pack that can be used "to keep mother's milk cool in the summer heat". 
Noriyuki Monda, the Wire Mama employee who came up with the idea for the product, says he was inspired by the "nappy cakes" he'd heard of overseas.

“Naturally, Japanese should make sushi,” with nappies, he tells the Japan Times.

Since first developing the product in 2012, Wire Mama has hired 10 women, who are all raising young children, to make each product by hand in their homes.

The company receives 200 orders each month, and ships to countries around the world, including Australia. But it's not cheap - AUD$218.49 including shipping.

Some creative people have shared their own homemade versions on Instagram:


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