kakemonos
- plural of kakemono.
Example Sentences
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I have referred to kakemonos, those wall pictures which are such a pleasing feature of the simple decoration of Japanese houses.
From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)
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 Menpes, Dorothy
At the rear of the temple buildings are situated the priests' apartments,—often a quadrangle enclosed by a colonnade,—the reception-rooms of which are beautifully decorated with kakemonos.
From Religion in Japan by Cobbold, George A. (George Augustus)
Their highly polished floors and passages, she remarks, 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 The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)
There were Persian praying mats to lay on the bare floor, kakemonos to be fastened with drawing pins on the bare walls.
From The Incomplete Amorist by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
