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 a dense misty landscape with chrysanthemums, pine branches, grasses and an architectural element. This style of decoration was called goshodoki (palace landscape) and was reserved for members of the ruling samurai class. Such patterns often contained subtle references to scenes from classical court literature. The architectural element in this fragment likely relates to one such tale, possibly the Tale of Genji.