The mikomi is painted with a single crane in flight looking down upon a minogame, both individually symbols of longevity, in a landscape featuring a wave washed beach (suhama) with a gnarled old Pine trees, also symbols of longevity. Elements that would have  immediately informed the viewer, that this was Horaisan (Penglai), the Isle of the immortals.

The cavetto decorated with a wide band of Hagi Karakusa with flowers of precious appearance Hosoge, in this case a combination of a Lotus and Peony, and most unusually Cho, butterflies, singly and in pairs. Perhaps a word play on auspicious kacho-ga patterns (Literally Flower and Butterfly). This particular pattern appears to be unusual and rare. The reverse is decorated with a continuous Karakusa vine arabesque. The base decorated with a spiral fuku within a double square. This a product of the Kakiemon workshop probably fired at the Kama-no-tsuji kiln, that superseded  the Old Kakiemon kiln. The high quality of the painting suggests a date before 1690. This dish was made for the domestic market.

 The dish measures 22.5 cm in diameter, which is quite large for what would have been considered a medium sized dish. The rim height is 4.3 cm. The footring diameter is 13.6 cm. It weighs 464  grams. The dish is in good condition, no cracks, but it has filled and gilded repairs to a  two shallow chips to the rim,at 2 and 7 o'clock, see images, otherwise no other restoration. Two small pinhead glaze bursts to funchibeni rim.