This unusual garment seems to have been constructed from what would have been the first stage in the production of a kimono, when the sections are temporarily assembled and the design drawn on in ink. Normally the garment would have then been unstitched and the individual panels dyed and/or embroidered with the design before the kimono was finally re-assembled. For some reason, this did not happen with this garment. Instead the pieces were saved, or possibly salvaged, and a lining and new overlap were added. The fact that the overlap and the bottom part of the kimono are additions to the original suggest the latter was perhaps damaged. Some of the motifs - of flowers by water’s edge or behind clouds, fences and thatched buildings – on the lower part have been lost.