A long, rectangular box with rounded corners, the sides with metal rings for tying cords, the top with rounded cut-outs above, the base flat. On the top, in takamakie, and painted in gold on a black ground, a tall pine and a prunus tree growing by rocks and swirling water, with a gold-topped hill above, and details of the ground in fundame, the design continuing over the sides, the inside decorated in nashiji.

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