Fibrous, course, uneven sheet (a) with thickly- painted yellow brown design of fruit(?), flowers and leaves: randomly-placed relief design is green and dark green leaves, three round red objects, each capped with a seed cluster, two flowers with orange petals, and two red cup-like flowers, one large, one small, each with seed clusters at centre. Yellow brown ground has ribbed texture and appearance, and shows reliefs of vines and leaves, dark brown in recesses of paper. Sample pasted to plain, thick white mount, sample information printed on back. Protected by rectangular piece of white covering gauze and folder (b): thick, heavy, roughened, yellow white paper, folded over, flap opening from left, all edges retaining an irregular deckle edge. Brown rectangular strip on front has black printing of paper name in Japanese and English.

Washi sample mounted on white, labelled and folded paper with 3-pointed leaf above scrolled 'm' watermark. Sample is yellow white with silhouette pattern in thick coat of black, shining paint: three containers, three knife-like objects, and three other shapes arranged in three vertical rows. Japanese script in red, shining paint, upper right of design.

Washi sample mounted on white, labelled and folded paper with 3-pointed leaf above scrolled 'm' watermark. Sample is mottled orange with yellow cup-shaped, black-outlined flowers arranged in horizontal rows, each row offset from the last; cups point right, base of each with dark blue, three-pronged leaf and stem shapes which are joined together by other blue lines.

Washi sample mounted horizontally on white, labelled and folded paper with 3-pointed leaf above scrolled 'm' watermark. Sample is rectangular, thin, translucent, white. Faint watermark pattern of widely spaced vertical and closely spaced horizontal lines. Upper and right edges cut straight; lower and left retain irregular deckle edge. Upper surface smoother.