The figure shown seated cross-legged, modeled with the soft figure of a youth but with a stern facial expression, the upper and lower fangs protruding from the clenched mouth, a lotus crown adorning the figure's head and the hair swept to one side in a braid down the left shoulder and gathered in a double lotus flower tie, a kurikara (Buddhist sword) held in the right hand and a weighted rope in the left (both later additions), the robes draped around his waist and over the left shoulder and decorated with dharma wheel, floral, and geometric patterns in gilt, the upper arms with bands gathered with chrysanthemum bosses, the eyes inlaid in reverse-painted crystal, set on a multi-tiered dais decorated with dharma wheels and roundels of four-pronged vajra punctuated by tightly scrolling vines in black and red lacquer on a gilt ground, the lowest register applied with gilt-copper fittings carved with vines