A framed panel showing a butterfly swooping down over the rounded curve of a bank where mare's tail and plantain grow. Below, two huge butterbur leaves and a paper offering held in a bamboo pole protected from the swirling eddies of an irrigation canal by a bundle of rice straw. Vetch and dandelion leaves and flowers strewn on the butterbur leaves. The decoration in gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie, and togidashie, with details in shell placed in okibirame fashion, kuromakie, and other makie techniques, of roiro and seidonuri grounds. The butterfly of copper, gold, silver and shakudo with shell details, its wings attached to the panel by a hinge. Inscriptions on the storage-box read Makie minakuchi matsuri no zu (Makie panel with designs of the minakuchi) and Oju Sasaki Masashi-haku Meiji jugo aki kugatsu chujun toki toshi nanajuroku-o Koma Zeshin kore wo seisu (Made to the order of Count Sasaki Masashi by the venerable Koma Zeshin, aged 76, in autumn in the middle of the ninth month of the fifteenth year of Meiji (1882)), with a seal Chiku.