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Definition of Makimono
1. Noun. A type of Japanese hand scroll which unrolls horizontally; laterally on a flat surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Makimono
1. a Japanese ornamental scroll [n -NOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Makimono
Literary usage of Makimono
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese by William Anderson (1886)
"makimono, on silk, painted in colours. Length, 197 X 10. Insects and flowers.
Carefully drawn and coloured, but weak in design. Artist unknown. ..."
2. On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of by Henry P. Bowie (1911)
"... in the Ukiyo e manner, have painted kakemono, BYOBU and makimono. ... makimono,
meaning a wound thing, is a painting in scroll form. ..."
3. Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse (1886)
"A shelf in the chigai-dana, having a rib or raised portion on its free end, is
called a makimono-dana. On this shelf the long picture- scrolls called ..."
4. Arts and Crafts of Old Japan by Stewart Dick (1909)
"The makimono, or horizontal roll, is largely used for historical scenes or for
landscape sketches, the series, many feet long, often forming one continuous ..."
5. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Giving a Descriptive and Critcal Account of by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison (1910)
"... on the seventh of January seven different herbs are gathered and boiled with
rice to give good luck. A paper makimono of seven pieces, supposed to be by ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Henry Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams (1902)
"The secular paintings of this period, it may here be mentioned, are almost wholly
in the makimono form, the kakemono being used at the time almost ..."
7. The Arts of Japan by Edward Dillon (1906)
"Some of the older makimono preserved in the temple treasuries are most sumptuously
got up with mountings of silk brocade and with ..."
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