A technical dictionary of printmaking, André
Béguin.
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kakemono
"Hanging
paintings". Some Japanese prints are very large and may be drawn out
vertically as they are much longer than they are wide. A bamboo stick
is fixed to the end of such scroll prints. The kakemono may be
opposed to the
makimono
which is a long horizontal scroll rather than a long vertical one.
The images and the perspective on such scrolls are clearly influenced
by the characteristic height or width of such
prints.
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