しこめ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しこめ – see the following entry.

【醜女】 [noun] an ugly demon-woman or hag from the underworld [noun] 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 1, pages 44-45: 醜女 日本紀私紀云、醜女、志古女、或説黄泉之鬼也、今世人爲恐小兒稱許々女者此語之訛也。 Hags The Nihongi Private Records call them hags, Japanese shikome, certain legends say they're demons of Yomi, nowadays people become afraid of small children calling them such women, this term is dialectic. [noun] an ugly woman

(This term, しこめ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as しこめ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as しこめ.)