kakemono
Americannoun
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kakemonos,
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kakemono
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of kakemono
1885–90; < Japanese, equivalent to kake ( y ) to hang ( see kakebuton) + mono thing
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The other kakemono is realistic, and proves that Kyosai was a sharp-eyed son of Japan's feudal age, which was, like Europe's, an age of falconry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Waterfowls in Lotus Pond is also a kakemono, or hanging scroll, mounted on silk, that shows the development of Japanese art into the early 17th century.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because the individual window shades are not unlike ancient Japanese kakemono paintings, Hilaire Hiler has called the whole contraption a Hilermono.
From Time Magazine Archive
The room is neat and spacious; Shinto kakemono from Kitzuki are suspended in the toko and upon the walls; and in one corner I see a very handsome Zen-but-sudan, or household shrine.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
There are some kakemono representing Iyeyasu and his retainers; and on either side of the door, separating the inner from the outward sanctuary, there are life-size images of Japanese warriors in antique costume.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
Well, we make him the old one;” and here Inchie gave me an exact description of how they make the old kakemonos.
From Japan A Record in Colour by Dorothy Menpes
People get him to write kakemonos and signboards for them, and he had earned 10 yen, or about 2 pounds, that day.
From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Most of their work was executed on the walls, ceilings, and sliding screens of the Buddhist temples, but some of it still exists in kakemonos, or wall pictures, and makimonos, or scroll pictures.
From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery
They were all open in front; their highly-polished floors and passages looked like still water; the kakemonos, or wall-pictures, on their side-walls were extremely beautiful; and their mats were very fine and white.
From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
She waited alone in her pale little drawing-room, with its scant kakemonos, its one or two chilly reproductions from the antique, its slippery Chippendale chairs.
From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Edith Wharton
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