Each decorated in gold, silver and shakudo relief inlay, one vase with Tokiwa Gozen conventionally depicted, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat shepherding her children through a winter storm in an attempt to escape from Taira Kiyomori's soldiers, Ushiwaka, the infant Minamoto Yoshitsune, cradled at her breast whilst Imawaka and Otowaka walk at her side, four herons in flight above; its pair with a complementary design showing an armoured gate-keeper in the foreground and the Taira forces in pursuit, an inscription on a gold guide post on the side Joshu Kadonogun ni kore o shitagau (Following them in the Kadono Prefecture of Yamashiro Province) and dated Heiji sannen junigatsu kichijitsu (A lucky day in the twelfth month in the third year of the Heiji era [1161]), all the figures' robes intricately inlaid with floral motifs, unsigned. (2)