Where does “お化け屋敷” come from?

お化け屋敷 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 屋敷, from Japanese 屋 — house; shop; person who sells or does that thing;...

お化け屋敷 (Japanese): haunted house

Definitions

  1. haunted house

Ancestry of “お化け屋敷”, step by step

お化け屋敷 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 屋敷

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese屋敷estate, grounds, mansion, residence
2Japanese屋house; shop; person who sells or does that thing;...

via Japanese お化け

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseお化けapparition, specter, ghost
2Japanese化けるtransformation, taking the form of; monster;...
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