Tray with rice stalks and a grasshopper on a tea kettle

Shibata Zeshin

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rectangular tray with a short lip around the edge. The tray is black with a design on the inside. The design features a grasshopper with a yellow body and orange wings sitting on a group of orange and yellow rice stalks. The rice stalks are on top of a dark orange oval shape on a black background. The tray is positioned at an angle, with the top-right corner pointing towards the viewer. The background of the image is white with a gradient that darkens at the top.