Records show that it may consist of 7 dishes of food; namely shikisankon (three trays of drink and food), zoni (vegetable soup containing rice cakes), honzen (the first tray), ninozen (the second tray), and sannozen (the third tray), and the scale ranged from a mouthful container just like a suzuributa (a lid of an ink stone) to a large-scale banquet.
式三献、雑煮、本膳、二の膳、三の膳、硯蓋からなり、大規模な饗宴では七の膳まであったとの記録もある。