Incense container in three tiers and a lid, wood covered in black lacquer, in the form of a tree stump up which ivy grows, the ivy in gold takamaki-e (maki-e in which parts of the design are raised by adding clay or charcoal powder) and cloisonné enamel on a black lacquer ground sprinkled with gold powder to imitate wood grain (mokume) in togidashi-maki-e (a completed hiramaki-e design covered completely with additional layers of lacquer, these being polished away until the design reappears flush with the ground). The interior and base of the box is in nashiji (irregularly-shaped flakes of gold suspended in clear or yellowish lacquer resembling pear skin), and the lower tier is lined with metal for incense ashes.