# Two Dishes

- By: Masato Imaizumi
- Date: c. 2002
- Medium: glaze, porcelain
- Classification: platter
- Dimensions: diameter 11.2 cm
- Credit line: Gift of Y. Shibata, Tokyo
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-RAK-2002-5-1--20dbff71b27ab1afd3673c66b8d63fc7)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/ngRIk/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.