The palette for this piece contains a wide spectrum of bright and vivid colors. The composition is painted in the old style that icon painters use, where normal proportions regarding size, distant, and time do not matter within the scene. Here the castle, which should be very far away, seems to be very close to the girl, who is also much larger than the castle as it was painted. To give the scene a formal structure the artist makes the water mimic the position of the girl's body. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box and red lacquer is used to paint the interior of the box.
Gold paint is used to decorate the exterior of the box in the form of scrollwork.
A simple, yet smooth design frames the scene, and a much larger design wraps around the sides of the box that is supplemented with aluminum flowers. The box does not have a hinge and rests on a flat bottom.