# Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock

- By: Okabe Ko (Japanese)
- Date: late 1800s
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Overall: 170.2 x 87.7 cm (67 x 34 1/2 in.); Painting only: 126.4 x 56 cm (49 3/4 x 22 1/16 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.68)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1990.68/1990.68_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A great interest in Western scientific studies developed in Japan during the late Edo period (1615-1868) and into the Meiji era (1868-1912). One outcome of this phenomenon in the visual arts was the detailed portrayal of plant, animal, and marine life. This painting is an assemblage of objects carefully observed from nature, but not usually seen together.