crape wrapper; small decorative cloth
A small square of silk crepe or similar fabric used in traditional Japanese gift-giving and tea ceremony to cover or wrap items, often placed over a gift or used to wipe tea utensils.
In tea ceremony, one may purify the tea bowl with a kakebukusa cloth.
We present celebratory gifts covered with a kakebukusa.
Standard kanji spelling for this traditional cloth wrapper.
Variant spelling omitting the okurigana け.
Compound of 掛け (kake, 'hanging' or 'covering') and 袱紗 (fukusa, 'silk wrapping cloth'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term describes a cloth used to cover or drape over objects in formal contexts.