Imperial robe (for summer wear) of purple silk gauze, embroidered with coloured silks and gold thread, and edged with brocade (gold thread on purple satin), it has a pleated skirt divided into two parts. The embroidery fills the upper part of the robe, is worked round the cuffs, and forms a broad border to the skirts; it consists of the conventional pattern of dragons pursuing flaming magic jewels amid clouds and bats, above a sea from which rises Meru, the sacred mountain of the Buddhists ( a variety of symbolical objects are also shown, e.g. a pair of fishes (the Buddhist emblem of fecundity), a double swastika & a lucky (ruyi) sceptre); above the skirt border is a series of roundels with the dragon and jewel motif. Near the edge of the left side of the robe is a small panel of embroidery, also with the dragon and jewel motif, it forms a flap to the upper part of the skirt. The brocade edging runs down the left side of the robe, round the cuffs and the panel above described, and along the top and the bottom of the skirts. The lower part of each sleeve is embroidered with narrow stripes in gold thread.