/mah'keuh moh"noh/ ; Japn. /mah"kee maw'naw/ , n. , pl. makimonos, makimono .
a horizontal hand scroll containing either text or a captioned painting, intended to be viewed as it is unrolled from right to left, one segment at a time. Cf. kakemono .
[ 1880-85; maki wind + mono thing ]