Box, lid and tray, of squared form and with rounded corners, and with an overhanging lid that has scalloped edges to accomodate a gilt metal, leaf-shaped fitting (for a cord, now missing) in the centre of the base on each main side; the lid exterior is decorated with pine and bamboo on a rocky outcrop, together with a pair of Tokugawa mon (family crests), with the subject continuing round the sides in gold and silver takamaki-e ('high sprinkled picture') and hiramaki-e ('low sprinkled picture'), with gold and silver kirikane ('cut gold') and gold and silver foil on a nashi-ji (pear skin ground) lacquer. The interior of the box, lid and tray is of nashi-ji lacquer and the underside of the tray and box is of black lacquer sparsely sprinkled with gold powder.