Tray with rounded corners and everted rims, wood covered in lacquer with a seated macaque monkey looking towards the left and its legs pointing in the same direction and, whereas it takes the weight of its body on its left arm, the right arm holds a leafy branch in gold, silver and red togidashi maki-e (a completed hiramaki-e design covered with additional layers of lacquer, these being polished away until the design reappears flush with the ground); the Shiomi Masanari seal is in the bottom right corner in red lacquer. The underside is in nashiji lacquer (a ground of irregularly-shaped flakes of gold suspended in clear or yellowish lacquer resembling pear skin) surrounded by a continuous pine-leaf scroll on the underside of the rims in gold hiramaki-e lacquer (metal powder sprinkled on to a lacquer design before it has hardened so that it is in low relief).