Two Dishes, Masato Imaizumi, c. 2002
turning, h 2.3cm × d 11.2cm More details
The hare and the moon are a well-known motif on Japanese porcelain. It relates to the legend of a mythical hare living on the moon. The freature pounds rice in a mortar for mochi – sweet rice cakes with the same round shape as the lunar disk.
