kakemono
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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
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 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
These are the two forms best known under their Japanese names of kakemono and makimono.
From Chinese Painters A Critical Study by Seaver, Frances
The art of the kakemono is clumsy; but the conception possesses curious interest.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio
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)
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 Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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)
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)
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 Wharton, Edith
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