The dish depicting a running hare under a bright moon, with the words ‘Spring White Hare’ within a rectangular frame. The Japanese craftsmen copied this earlier design visible on Chinese ceramics and changed it slightly to cater for its domestic market by using a technique called ‘Fukizumi’, which involved creating shapes with a paper stencil and then covered with blown ink, then outlined with an underglaze cobalt blue.
• A closely related dish is in the British Museum, London. Museum number1959,0418.1
