Decorated in enamels and gilt, the body decorated with two large rectangular panels, each enclosing a contrasting scene, one depicting a family of chickens foraging for food among tall stems of bamboo and flowering shrubs of chrysanthemum and fuyo (rose mallow) growing beside a stream, the other showing throngs of revellers enjoying the hanami (cherry-blossom-viewing) season, including drunken men, priests, entertainers and families gathered inside and approaching an imposing tea-house nestled beneath the branches of large flowering cherry trees, all reserved on a blue ground decorated with stylised chrysanthemum heads strewn over a stream, the neck applied with two handles in the form of elephant heads; signed on the base within two overlapping shikishi (square-shaped poem-cards) Dai Nippon Kyoto Awata Kinkozan zo (made by Kinkozan in Awata, Kyoto, Great Japan) and Mitsutoshi ga (painted by Mitsutoshi).