提灯お化け

Japanese

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

Compound of 提灯 (chōchin, “collapsible cylindrical paper lantern”) +‎ お化け (obake, “a ghost, a spook, an apparition”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ɕo̞ːt͡ɕiɰ̃ o̞ba̠ke̞]

Noun

提(ちょう)灯(ちん)お化(ば)け • (chōchin obake) 

  1. 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

  1. ^ “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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