(Japanese mythology, Tōhoku) a kind of yōkai: a red-faced ghost or apparition of a child haunting an old house, generally not malevolent, and thought to bring good fortune to the house

a traditional Japanese-style room with tatami flooring, or in older times, with wood flooring and mats or cushions for sitting upon / such a room used as a parlor to receive guests

yokai: supernatural being, monster, apparition, goblin

(dated) creepy, spooky, ghastly, perilous

entrance in a performance / appearance in a scene or situation; arrival

appear in a performance, for a character to enter / enter the scene, arrive

myth; mythology (divine story) / myth (baselessly absolutized concept)

juvenile, child

Japan

(archaic) Japan