This silk uchikake, styled after the goshodoki tradition from the Edo era, reflects the attire of older female samurais. Goshodoki, known as palace style, depicts slightly formal scenes—often imaginative, sometimes suggesting specific stories or No plays. In the early Edo era, wedding garments in the goshodoki style were usually fully embroidered. However, this particular piece stands out by employing yuzen and hand bokashi painting techniques alongside embroidery and metallic couching, a departure from the fully-embroidered Edo garments. The masterful painting, almost pastel-like in certain areas, adorns silk taffeta, a favored fabric among female samurais. This textile likely belonged to a female from a former samurai family.