An embroidered appliqué in the shape of a decorated poem card (shikishi), made from a repurposed fragment of a wealthy samurai-class women's kimono. Such luxurious silk textiles were too valuable to discard after wear and were routinely repurposed into new garments (see Accession no. 2024.021). This appliqué, along with other similarly shaped embroidered fragments, would have likely been arranged in a disorderly composition and sewed onto an outer robe.

The fragment’s design depicts wisteria, using embroidery, gold couching and imitation tie-dye.