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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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 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
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
Second kakemono: Such a gloom as the diver sees in deep-sea water, a lurid twilight.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
The ceiling of the room was covered with a gaily flowered European paper, and on the walls hung some cheap Chinese kakemonos.
From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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
Would I, for example, forego my casual kakemonos, my ignorantly acquired majolica, some trifling accumulation of Greek coins, that handful of Eastern rugs?
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
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 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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