kakemonos

In this, as in many other yadoyas, there were kakemonos with large Chinese characters representing the names of the Prime

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

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.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

People get him to write kakemonos and signboards for them, and he had earned 10 yen, or about 2 pounds, that day.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

European paper, and on the walls hung some cheap Chinese kakemonos.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

The latter was furnished in the usual style (invariable, it seems to me, from country inn to prince's palace), heavy high chairs, heavy high tables ranged against walls decorated with kakemonos and gay mottoes; only in the centre of the room was a large table covered with a cloth of European manufacture on which were set out dishes of English biscuits and sweets.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

Would I, for example, forego my casual kakemonos, my ignorantly acquired majolica, some trifling accumulation of Greek coins, that handful of Eastern rugs?

The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

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.

The Pretext 1908

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.

The Hermit and the Wild Woman Edith Wharton 1899

There were Persian praying mats to lay on the bare floor, kakemonos to be fastened with drawing pins on the bare walls.

The Incomplete Amorist 1891

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_.

Religion in Japan