Chōchinobake
Chōchinobake (提灯お化け?, "paper lantern ghost") are a type of Tsukumogami,[1] "[the] lantern-spook (chochinobake) ... a stock character in the pantheon of ghouls and earned mention in the definitive demonology of 1784."[2]
The Chōchinobake in particular was created from a chōchin lantern, composed of "bamboo and paper or silk." They are portrayed with "one eye, and a long tongue protruding from an open mouth."[3]
Notes
- ^ Bush, 109.
- ^ Screech, 109
- ^ Bakechochin, 57.
Suggested Reading
- "Bakechochin." The Element Encyclopedia of the Psychic World. Harper Element. (2006)
- Bush, Lawrence. Asian horror encyclopedia: Asian horror culture in literature, manga and folklore. Writers Club Press. (2001)
- Kenkyūsho, Nihon Shakai Shisō. Japan interpreter: Volumes 8-9. (Tokyo, Japan), Nihon Shakai Shisō Kenkyūsho, Tokyo. (1974)
- Screech, Timon. The lens within the heart: the Western scientific gaze and popular imagery in later Edo Japan. University of Hawaii Press (2002)
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