The painted screen depicts the cherry blossom, celebrated enthusiastically in Japan since time immemorial. Either Arashiyama near Kyōto or Yoshino south of Nara is most likely pictured here; both are popular destinations for cherry blossom viewing. The landscape with flowering cherry trees, a stream, and golden clouds extends over all six panels of the nearly four-meter-wide folding screen. Staffage figures bring the scene to life: in the middle left, a group of swimmers; in the foreground, raftsmen, fishermen, and rice farmers at work; in the upper right, wanderers gazing at a waterfall.

The unsigned screen is probably the work of a city painter (machi eshi), perhaps from Kyōto. His style is influenced by the Kanō school and other painting traditions of early modern Japan.