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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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 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
I give back the old kakemono to the guardian, make my offering to the god, and take my leave of Koshin and his good servant.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
After the plays he painted kyōgen scenes for us on kakemono and fans.
From The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J.W. Robertson Scott
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
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
The author and publisher have had the generous co-operation of many famous collectors, and the thirty illustrations include many exquisite reproductions of some of the most perfect kakemonos in Europe.
From Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Henry Borrow
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 H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery
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 George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold
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