からかさ小こ僧ぞう

noun

karakasa-obake; umbrella ghost

A legendary Japanese yōkai: a one-eyed, one-legged umbrella spirit with a long tongue, often depicted hopping around.

• からかさ小こ僧ぞうは、古ふるい傘かさが化ばけた妖よう怪かいだと言いわれている。

  The karakasa-obake is said to be a yōkai born from an old umbrella.

• お化ばけ屋や敷しきでからかさ小こ僧ぞうの張はりぼてを見みた。

  I saw a papier-mâché karakasa-obake in the haunted house.