Painted in underglaze blue, each face depicting a different design, including branches of peaches overhanging stalks of mushrooms issuing from tumultuous waters and two long-tailed birds perched among bamboo stems separated by a symmetrical vertical arrangement of bird-and-flower, calligraphy and Chinese motifs within roundels on a fragmented rinzu (textile-weave) ground, the neck with a band of auspicious Chinese characters, signed on the base in underglaze blue Makuzu Kozan sei within a large rectangular reserve; with a separate hardwood square stand, a tomobako wood storage box titled Kabin (flower vase), inside the lid inscribed Goshonzui i Makuzu Kozan saku (traditional Shonzui designs, made by Makuzu Kozan) with two seals Teishitsu Gigei-in (Artist to the Imperial Household) and Makuzu Kozan and an outer wood storage box. (4).