This outer kimono (uchikake) bears some of the key characteristics of late nineteenth-century formal kimono. The decoration is concentrated below the waist and features a detailed landscape created using a combination of paste-resist dyeing and ink painting with tiny touches of embroidery. Pine trees, thatched cottages, fishing nets and boats are shown by the seashore with distant hills and cranes flying above. Another important feature is the shading technique which creates the transition from the pale ground of the lower section to the dark colour above, a dyeing method known as akebono bokashi. Designs such as this were normally created on silk crepe, but here a figured silk, woven with a pattern of flowers and cranes, has been used which gives the garment an added sense of luxuriousness and visual variety.