Plato japonés que consiste principalmente en mariscos o pescado crudos, cortados en rebanadas (aunque no tanto como un carpaccio). Usualmente se sirve con salsa de soja.
köken: Compound of 刺(さ)し (sashi, “sticking into, sticking between; slicing”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 刺(さ)す (sasu, “to stick into”)) + 身(み) (mi, “flesh, meat”). The use of the verb 刺(さ)す (sasu) here to mean slice is irregular, and may be due to the kill connotations of the verb 切(き)る (kiru, “to cut, to slice”) during the Muromachi period when the word sashimi…