Each designed as a miniature hanging scroll (kakemono) with simulated silk brocade mounts executed in polychrome enamels; three in matching mounts with respective images of The Sixteen Arhats with Gama sennin and Tekkai sennin; Fujin, Raijin, The Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Shichifukujin) and Startled Humans; and Hell Scene: Enma, King of Hell, Presiding over a Skeleton Forced to Look in the Mirror of Past Deeds at His Past Life as a Fisherman Netting Fish, each signed on the obverse Sekko sha with two red seals and signed on the reverse Watanabe Sekko; also with inscription on the reverse of Hell Scene dated Meiji 37 (1904) stating that the plaques commemorate the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) and with mark of the Hododa workshop and names of additional Hododa artisans and the Shimazu family crest associated with earthenware of the Satsuma type
The fourth plaque with image of The Death of the Buddha (Shaka nehan), signed on the obverse Sekko kinsha sha and with two red seals, signed on the reverse Wada Hogetsu saku and with Hododa workshop mark and Shimazu crest