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Usually narrow with a picture or writing on it and a roller at the bottom
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kakemono
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A , more commonly referred to as a , is a Japanese scroll painting or calligraphy mounted usually with silk fabric edges on a flexible backing, so that it can be rolled for storage. The "Maruhyōsō" style of kakejiku has four distinct named sections. The ...
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n. (context arts English) A vertical Japanese scroll painting
Usage examples of kakemono.
In one hangs a kakemono, or wall-picture, a painting of a blossoming branch of the cherry on white silk--a perfect piece of art, which in itself fills the room with freshness and beauty.
In the alcove hangs a kakemono of exquisite beauty, a single blossoming branch of the cherry.
Resolved at all hazards to rescue the precious painting, he rushes into the burning building and seizes the kakemono, only to find all means of exit cut off by the flames.
The room through which you enter from the street always has an open door, through which you see houses showing a high degree of material civilization, lofty rooms, handsome altars opposite the doors, massive, carved ebony tables, and carved ebony chairs with marble seats and backs standing against the walls, hanging pictures of the kind called in Japan kakemono, and rich bronzes and fine pieces of porcelain on ebony brackets.
In this, as in many other yadoyas, there were kakemonos with large Chinese characters representing the names of the Prime Minister, Provincial Governor, or distinguished General, who had honoured it by halting there, and lines of poetry were hung up, as is usual, in the same fashion.
People get him to write kakemonos and signboards for them, and he had earned 10 yen, or about 2 pounds, that day.
In one hangs a kakemono, or wall-picture, a painting of a blossoming branch of the cherry on white silk--a perfect piece of art, which in itself fills the room with freshness and beauty.
In the alcove hangs a kakemono of exquisite beauty, a single blossoming branch of the cherry.
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.