Beautifully presented food.  Oh, the crab salad to die for.  When I lived in Japan in the early 60's we lived on a cobbled stone street until our name came up on the long waiting list for more updated housing.  At the end of that street was a fish and vegetable market where nothing was refrigerated. The octopus  in your post brings to mind one of the top shelves in that market that always had a few of them draped and looking down at me.  Wow have times changed!