The painting depicts a gorgeous atmosphere with a houseboat floating in a pond showing that Jiro, who married a nyobo (lady-in-waiting) from the imperial court and enjoyed entertainment such as poems and music, made a pond and had a tsuridono built within the vast premises and had graceful trees, such as red Japanese plum, cherry and pine trees, planted in the garden.
池に屋形船をうかべはなやかな様子が描かれているが二郎は宮廷の女房を妻にもらい、詩歌管弦の遊戯を好んでいたらしく、広大な敷地内には池を築き釣殿を建て、庭園には紅梅や桜、松などの趣ある植栽がなされている様子がわかる。