Crossword-Solution: KAKEMONO 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Resolved at all hazards to rescue the precious painting, he rushes into the burning building and seizes the kakemono, only to find all means of exit cut off by the flames.

The rooms are not encumbered by ornaments; a single _kakemono_, or fine piece of lacquer or china, appears for a few days and then makes way for something else; so they have variety as well as simplicity, and each object is enjoyed in its turn without distraction.

The room through which you enter from the street always has an open door, through which you see houses showing a high degree of material civilization, lofty rooms, handsome altars opposite the doors, massive, carved ebony tables, and carved ebony chairs with marble seats and backs standing against the walls, hanging pictures of the kind called in Japan kakemono, and rich bronzes and fine pieces of porcelain on ebony brackets.

There is always a picture--or perhaps two or three of them--hanging like long banners on the wall at the back of the "honorable recess." These banner pictures are called kakemono.

Gaily she set her wits and fingers to work--placing a heavy brass _hibachi_ over a black scorch in the matting, fitting new rice-paper into the small wooden squares of the _shoji_, and hanging _kakemono_ over the ugly holes made by the missing plaster in the wall.