Its common pattern was the naïve painting of kacho-fugetsu (the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics) and the like which were drawn on white silk and white linen with the leaf juice of mercury (Mercurialis leiocarpa) called aozuri (things dyed deep blue).
模様としては、白絹及び白麻地に青摺（あおずり）と呼ばれる山藍の葉の汁で、花鳥風月等の素朴な文様を書くのが一般的。