提灯お化け
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 提 | 灯 | 化 |
| ちょう Grade: 5 |
ちん Grade: 4 |
ば Grade: 3 |
| tōon | kun'yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 提燈お化け (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 提灯 (chōchin, “collapsible cylindrical paper lantern”) + お化け (obake, “a ghost, a spook, an apparition”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]提灯お化け • (chōchin obake)
- a "lantern obake": a kind of yokai or traditional Japanese spook or apparition, consisting of a free-floating paper lantern with eyes and a mouth, popularly depicted on collector cards in the Edo and Taisho eras
References
[edit]- ^ “提灯お化け”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen][1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
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