Word: kakemono
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Wild duck always return to the scene of their birth-so good Japanese believe. Last week the 8th Hirosaki Division was assembling under orders from the Emperor for duty in Manchuria. In hundreds of well-to-do Japanese homes parents hung long silken kakemono (scroll paintings) of wild ducks in the tokonoma* as tokens to bring their sons safely home again. Those who could afford it hung duck paintings by the man whom conservative Japanese regard as the greatest living wild fowl painter: Tetsuzan Hori, head of the Tokyo and Kyoto Fine Art Schools, one of the last exponents...
...Francisco newspaper.* After intermittent work on newspapers and as an itinerant actor, he gained prominence as the illustrator of Author Wallace Irwin's "Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy" in Life. The oriental stamp of his "Hashimura Togo" sketches has reappeared from time to time in burlesque kakemono (Japanese scroll pictures) which he prepares for the New Yorker, of which he is art director. Cartoonist Irvin will continue his series of funny advertisements for Murad ("Be Nonchalant") cigarets...
...writing his report to his superior, Mr. Wakatsuki takes much more dignified attitude than your description. If he did wrote his report to his Emperor in such position as you say, he certainly must be so helplessly paralyzed at that particular moment. The accompanying picture shows him writing a Kakemono, meaning hanging-word-picture, painting a word "self" in a large letter on likely a sheet of silk. (Probably next word was "ashamed.") This is to be made up in frame and hang on a wall in a certain corner of a supposed-to-be most sacred room...
...faith. The picture will probably be hung in one of the rooms at the Divinity School Library. The gift was accompanied by a letter from which the following is quoted: "Allow me to present through you to the library of the Harvard Divinity School, an old temple hanging picture (kakemono) which I have brought from Japan. The picture is very old and the subject depicted is the Buddhist deity, Senju Korannon, here represented as the type of the Almighty Power. I am happy in placing this treasure of the old faith of the far East in the Harvard School library...