thumb|300px|right|Sushi plate (盛り合わせ) with sashimi to the left and a Western-style inside-out roll (rice outside) to the right
There are many sushi and sashimi ingredients, some of which are traditional and others contemporary.
Sushi styles
thumb|right|Packaged [[nigirizushi for sale at a Tokyo supermarket]]
thumb|right|[[California roll is a contemporary-style maki-zushi.]]
- Chirashi-zushi (ちらし寿司, scattered sushi) is a bowl of sushi rice topped with a variety of raw fish and vegetables/garnishes (also refers to barazushi)
- Inari-zushi (稲荷寿司, fried tofu pouch) is a type of sushi served in a seasoned and fried pouch made of tofu and filled with sushi rice.
- Thinly sliced sheets of cucumber
- Gyusashi (牛刺し): Raw beef
- Amadai (あまだい): tilefish
- Hokke (ホッケ): Okhotsk atka mackerel
- Inada (鰍): very young yellowtail
- Iwana (イワナ): charr
- (間八): greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili
- Ōtoro (大とろ): fattiest portion of bluefin tuna belly
- Ohyou (大鮃): halibut
- Tara (鱈): Cod
- Namako (海鼠, なまこ): Sea cucumber
- Ikura (イクラ): Salmon roe
- Sujiko (筋子): Salmon roe (still in the sac)
- Tobiko (飛子): roe of Flying fish
- Wakame (若布): Edible seaweed, sea mustard
Shellfish
thumb|Raw [[abalone meat]]
thumb|[[Salmon as food|Salmon nigiri]]
thumb|160px|[[Soft-shell crab on ice]]
- Akagai (赤貝): Ark shell
- Ebi (海老): boiled or raw shrimp
- Kaki (カキ,牡蠣): Oyster
