zashiki-warashi

Zashiki-warashi — a child spirit that lives in old houses.

Tono2 tales

• Tale 17Sightings of the zashiki-warashiIt was said that old family houses were home to a god called the zashiki-warashi, a child spirit that lives in old houses, a child of about twelve or…
• Tale 18The decline of the house the zashiki-warashi leftIt was said that two child goddesses lived in the house of Yamaguchi Magozaemon, an old family, but one day a man met two unfamiliar girls by a…