For an early Imari sake bottle decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, this work is especially large. The line of the rounded body describes a gentle, flowing curve and the rim curls slightly inward. On the body is a design made by blowing pigment through a special sprayer onto the surface of the vessel, a method believed to have derived from a technique used on ko-sometsuke ware at the Jingdezhen kilns in China during the latter part of the Ming dynasty. Prevalent among Imari pieces decorated in this fashion are plates where the interior contains a design created by blowing the pigment over a stencil: the motif, such as that of the rabbit and moon, thus appears in white against cobalt blue.