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
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
"What have you been doing while I was away?" he asked, crossing the room to look at a new kakemono on the wall.
From The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
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
The work of the old painters of Japan, as it appears on kakemonos and makimonos, is now rare.
From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery
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
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
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
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