The competition began with more than 270 hopefuls, but many got stung by words such as kakemono and cyamonke (ph). ❋ Unknown (2005)
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. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The rooms are not encumbered by ornaments; a single kakemono, or fine piece of lacquer or china, appears for a few days and then makes way for something else; so they have variety as well as simplicity, and each object is enjoyed in its turn without distraction. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
In the alcove hangs a kakemono of exquisite beauty, ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The shoji are often beautifully painted, and in each room is hung a kakemono (a wall picture, a painting finely executed on a strip of silk). ❋ John Finnemore (N/A)
Usually it is a recess a few feet long and a few inches wide, and over it hangs the finest kakemono that the house can afford, and in front of it is ❋ John Finnemore (N/A)
If a visitor be present in the house, the guest-chamber will be decorated afresh every day, each design showing some new and unexpected beauty in screen, or flower-decked vase, or painted kakemono. ❋ John Finnemore (N/A)
"What have you been doing while I was away?" he asked, crossing the room to look at a new kakemono on the wall. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
One may follow Woman Decorative in the Orient on vase, fan, screen and kakemono; as she struts in the stiff manner of Egyptian bas reliefs, across walls of ancient ruins, or sits in angular serenity, gazing into the future through the narrow slits of Egyptian eyes, oblivious of time; woman, beautiful in the European sense, and decorative to the superlative degree, on Greek vase and sculptured wall. ❋ Emily Burbank (N/A)
They have probably never seen the same picture or the same ornament twice in the kakemono. ❋ George Lynch (N/A)
One scroll is hung in the kakemono, and in front of it one ornament, and afterwards a solitary flower. ❋ George Lynch (N/A)
On one wall hangs a _kakemono_, or a long strip of paper with flowers painted in water-colours. ❋ Sven Anders Hedin (1908)
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. ❋ Okakura, Kakuzo, 1862-1913 (1906)
Rikiu places the various articles before them, with the kakemono. ❋ Okakura, Kakuzo, 1862-1913 (1906)
The room was devoid of furniture, its only decoration being a vase of carefully arranged flowers in an alcove, and a queer kakemono that hung on an ivory stick. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)
It even had an alcove with a tiny kakemono, and a little vase in it! ❋ Lucy Fitch Perkins (1901)
In rows of kakemono, suspended side by side, were displayed the incidents of a Soul's journey to the realm of judgment, and all the horrors of the various hells. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
