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.
"Peeps at Many Lands: Japan"
John Finnemore
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 a vase whose flowers are arranged in a traditional form which has a certain allegorical meaning.
"Peeps at Many Lands: Japan"
John Finnemore
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.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)