They are mounted as kakejiku or kakemono, vertical wall hangings.

Kakemono also refers to hanging scroll paintings.

Kakemono, a Japanese hanging, is intended to be hung against a wall as part of the interior decoration of a room.

He would later incorporate Japanese imagery in satirical kakemono for The New Yorker.

Nampo made calligrphies (calligraphy) mainly in the tanzaku and kakemono format.

Often the kakemono used for this will bear calligraphy of a Zen phrase in the hand of a distinguished Zen master.

Kakemono: A Sketchbook of Postwar Japan (1950)

This is because in the past, Kakemono were viewed from a kneeling (seiza) position and provided perspective to the "Honshi" main work.

Kakemono were usually hung low, as they were intended to be viewed while frontally seated at the distance of a tatami mat width (approximately 90 cm).

In contrast to byōbu (folding screen) or shohekiga (wall paintings), kakemono can be easily and quickly changed to match the season or occasion.

The "hanging" part is probably meant to be taken in an abstract sense to mean "ornament" or "decoration", as it is the same Japanese verb used to talk about kakemono.

The room will be sparsely furnished with a tokonoma (alcove for a kakemono, scroll, or flower arrangement) and a series of shoji (paper sliding screens) over the windows.

The kakemono was introduced to Japan during the Heian period, primarily for displaying Buddhist images for religious veneration, or as a vehicle to display calligraphy or poetry.

In the main building hangs a kakemono inscribed 'Son-jo', an abbreviation of the contemporary slogan Sonnō jōi, 'Revere the Emperor, expel the foreigners'.

Mitsuoki's pictures were often on scrolls that can be hung on a wall, otherwise known as kakemono (掛け物) or handscrolls (emakimono) that could be read from right to left with the accompanied story.

After serving all his guests, he presented each piece of the tea-equipage for their inspection, along with an exquisite kakemono, which Okakura described as "a wonderful writing by an ancient monk dealing with the evanescence of all things."

Heightened interest was seen on Nov. 21 at Christie's auction of John La Farge's "Peonies Blown in the Wind, With Kakemono Border," the most extraordinary window by the artist to be auctioned in more than a decade.

This would become something of a hallmark in later works, for example the BBC-commissioned Chamber Concerto, the second string quartet, because it'Spring, Kakemono for harps, Firefinch for oboe and piano, and the I Ching piano pieces.

The types of scrolls were both vertical for hanging, with a backing usually of thick woven silk, the traditional Chinese format which became the most common in Japan in this period (kakemono in Japanese), and in the long horizontal handscroll (emakimono) format as used for books.