地域や季節によって内容が変わるが、酢飯の上に錦糸玉子を敷き詰め、その上に椎茸・干瓢の煮しめ、茹でニンジン、酢蓮根、エンドウ、竹輪、蒲鉾、田麩、味を付け高野豆腐、茹でた蛸、殻付の海老、焼穴子、烏賊、蛸、藻貝、鰆、ママカリのさまざまな具材を大きめに切断して(藻貝やエビ、エンドウなどは切らない)敷き詰める。
The ingredients varies according to seasons and areas, but typically vinegared rice is covered with kinshi-tamago egg (a thin omelet cut into narrow strips), and on it chopped ingredients are spread over, such as shiitake mushrooms and gourds (both simmered in soy broth), boiled carrots, lotus roots pickled in vinegar, green peas, chikuwa fish paste, kamaboko (steamed fish paste), dried shredded fish seasoning (denbu), seasoned koyadofu (freeze-dried tofu), boiled octopus, shrimp in shell, grilled conger eel, squid, mogai (sarubo ribbed ark), Japanese Spanish mackerel (sawara) and mamakari (Japanese shad), (but the ingredients such as mogai, shrimp and green peas are served whole). - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス