Lobster with shells, A lobster with a few shells. The most famous lobster comes from the Ise province and are therefore called Ise lobsters. This reference is also made in the poem: The Ise lobster has the color of a red morning mist rising from the wide open sea outside Futamigaura, during the first sunrise, crustaceans, molluscs (shell, snail-shell etc.), Kubota Shunman (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1800 - c. 1805, paper, colour woodcut, h 138 mm ⊙ w 198 mm.