Etymology

emaki

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Today it means: A Japanese picture scroll, a handscroll containing an illustrated narrative Full definition →

Japanese 絵巻
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from絵巻“picture scroll”
  2. English todayemaki

From Japanese 絵巻 (emaki, “picture scroll”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.