A shaped tray modelled as a half-unrolled handscroll, with the cord and tassel that would have tied it and a roller suggesting more turns still to unfold. Louis Lawrence calls it unusual in its complexity. The plate caption describes the scene as a daimyō procession; Lawrence’s text on p. 25 reads it as a Shinto procession, with a figure in a tengu costume, a saka tree hung with gohei paper, boxes of tribute, a portable shrine topped by a phoenix, priests and musicians. Both readings are given here. Lawrence notes that the flower-head ground imitates the brocade mounts of real scrolls.
Description summarised from Louis Lawrence, Satsuma: The Romance of Japan (2011), pl. 9, pp. 24–25. Measurements and marks are as published and have not been checked against the object.