https://www.kakemono.de/

(accessed May 27, 2021)

Mrs. Margaret Ransom’s drawing room is equipped with “scant kakemonos” (Lewis, 1968, p. 644). As some readers may assume, the term kakemono originates in Japan in the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Over hundreds of years the Japanese artists used numerous materials to draw and paint on but the typical Western canvas in a frame would not occur until the late 19^th century. They used a lot of other material and one of it was a kakemono. A kakemono is some kind of scroll which is put up vertically. Both ends of the kakemono are connected with a bar. A cord is attached to the one on the top of the kakemono so it can be put up on a wall. The bar on the bottom of the scroll serves as a straightener so that the kakemono can be watched in its whole size (Die Medien, 2021).

The picture shows a classic kakemono of which a few (“scant” (Lewis, 1968, p. 644)) can be found in Mrs. Margaret Ransom’s drawing room. The few are probably matching with the rest of the interior design of the “pale little drawing room” (Lewis, 1968, p. 644).