Illustration: In the kitchen of an Edo-period roadside inn, an enormous shaggy creature bends beneath a low beam. It has one round eye, three long arms, clawed feet, and a broad mouth with uneven fangs. A cook has dropped a wooden ladle and backed against the cold hearth, staring upward.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

化ばけ物もの

bakemono

monster

Example sentences

  1. 老夫婦ろうふうふが、一寸法師いっすんぼうしが全まったく大おおきくならないので化ばけ物ものではないかと気味悪きみわるく思おもっていた。

    The elderly couple was starting to fear that Issunboshi might be a monster because he was not growing bigger.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. かりそめの平和へいわに浸ひたっていたWESTTOKYOのファームレスシティに、ある日巨大ひきょだいな能面のうめんの化ばけ物ものが現あらわれる。

    One day, in Farmless City of WEST TOKYO enjoying transitory peace, a huge monster wearing a noh mask appears.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. しかし、この「ノヅチ」は後のちにニホンマムシの別名べつめいとされるようになり、さらにはヘビの化ばけ物ものとされるようになった。

    However, this 'Nozuchi' later became the other name for Japanese copperhead, and furthermore, was considered a monster snake.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 化物

  • 化change; take the form ofOnカ・ケKunばける・ばかす・ふける
  • 物thing; objectOnブツ・モツKunもの・もの-

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