kakemono
Americannoun
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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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
One kakemono is stylized�painted strictly according to Japanese convention.
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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
The room was devoid of furniture, its only decoration being a vase of carefully arranged flowers in an alcove, and a queer kakemono that hung on an ivory stick.
From The Honorable Percival by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
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