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扁額
へんがく
1. [n]
▶ framed picture or motto (usu. horizontal, hung over gates or lintels)



History:
2. A 2012-09-09 23:28:03  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -12,1 +12,1 @@
-<gloss>framed picture or motto (usually long horizontal, hung over gates or lintels)</gloss>
+<gloss>framed picture or motto (usu. horizontal, hung over gates or lintels)</gloss>
1. A* 2012-09-09 14:17:51  Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijr koj shinkaisan ja:WP Google images
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/扁額
  Comments:
Dicts specify horizontal, long, hung over gates etc. – very commonly seen (finally learned the name).
As per Google images, it’s also applied to non-horizontal ones, but rather less so.
There are more details on WP (often commissioned etc.), but that gets a bit encyclopedic.
  Diff:
@@ -12,1 +12,1 @@
-<gloss>framed picture or motto</gloss>
+<gloss>framed picture or motto (usually long horizontal, hung over gates or lintels)</gloss>

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