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2. Kakemono - Wikipedia

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   Decorative kakemono and ikebana in an onsen hotel. A kakemono (掛物, "hanging thing"), more commonly referred to as a kakejiku (掛軸, "hung scroll"), is a Japanese hanging scroll used to display and exhibit paintings and calligraphy inscriptions and designs mounted usually with silk fabric edges on a flexible backing, so that it can be rolled for storage.

3. Shoji - Wikipedia

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   [20] [22] Patterns may also be combined. [23] While these are traditionally used for shoji, they are increasingly used for other woodwork items, in and outside Japan. [20] [24] Patterns can be classified according to jigumi, the foundational grid; this may be square, [25] diamond-shaped, [26] or hexagonal.

4. Emakimono - Wikipedia

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   The term emakimono or e-makimono, often abbreviated as emaki, is made up of the kanji e (絵, "painting"), maki (巻, "scroll" or "book") and mono (物, "thing"). [1] The term refers to long scrolls of painted paper or silk, which range in length from under a metre to several metres long; some are reported as measuring up to 12 metres (40 ft) in length. [2]

5. Hanging scroll - Wikipedia

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   The upper part of the scroll is called tiantou (天頭; symbolizing "Heaven") and the lower part is called ditou (地頭; symbolizing "Earth"). [1] [5] At the top of the scroll is a thin wooden bar, called tiangan (天杆), on which a cord is attached for hanging the scroll. [3]

6. Tsuchigumo Sōshi - Wikipedia

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   Tsuchigumo Sōshi is a picture scroll, or emaki. [8] Noriko Tsunoda Reider of Miami University identifies it as an example of an otogi-zōshi, or Muromachi-period fiction, [9] and it was included in Volume 9 of the Collection of Tales of the Muromachi Period (室町時代物語大成 Muromachi-jidai Monogatari Taisei), [10] in spite of its technically dating to the end of the Kamakura period.

7. Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga - Wikipedia

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   Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga is credited as being the oldest work of manga in Japan, and is a national treasure as well as many Japanese animators believe it is also the origin of Japanese animated movies. [ 8 ] [ 14 ] In Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga the animals were drawn with very expressive faces and also sometimes used "speed lines", a technique used in ...