The only exception is the portrait of the High priestess (Saigu) Kishi; she is sitting on a tatami mat with ugen-beri (a hem made of silk fabrics colored in one color with sequential layers from light to dark) with a folding screen at the back and a kicho (a curtained frame put up to screen royal personages or noble ladies from direct view of those around them) at the front to indicate her noble status.
ただし、中で身分の高い斎宮女御徽子のみは繧繝縁（うんげんべり）の上畳（あげだたみ）に座し、背後に屏風、手前に几帳を置いて、格の高さを表している。