Five-story pagoda. The octagonal building raised on a low, stepped, carved, lacquered base, with five storeys of diminishing size, each with a bowed roof supported by projecting red brackets at the turned-up corners, from each of which hangs a small brass bell. A broader platform surrounded by a plain balustrade has steps leading to the first main floor, where, on each face, a low balustrade in three openwork sections connects the eight pillars joined by arches that support the roof, the walls round the centre behind alternately pierced by windows and by doors leading to a central room. The top storey with arched windows instead of doors, and capped by a steeply inclined, curving, hexagonal roof, topped by a bulbous finial in red and green, carved with a lotus scroll design.

Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume III.