Every and all paper decoration techniques, such as colored preliminary sketch, gold leaf and silver leaf, mica-printed jimon (textile pattern), suminagashi (pattern made with ink drop) and yaburitsugi (Heian-style collage technique to decorate poetry sheets), were employed in producing each book.
各帖には彩色下絵、金銀の箔、雲母（きら）刷りの地紋、墨流し、破り継ぎなど、あらゆる料紙装飾技法が駆使されている。