phantasm

On-Yomi: ゲン — Kun-Yomi: まぼろし

Koohii stories:

1) [Zactacular] 1-10-2007(186): After the play, The Phantasm of the Opera hangs up his cape on a clothes hanger and returns to his cocoon to sleep.

2) [Piitaa] 12-7-2006(107): You open your closet and find strange, glowing cocoons sitting on your clothes hangers… definitely a phantasm!

3) [Meconium] 4-9-2009(38): The mother who has undergone a back-street abortion using a clothes hanger is having phantasms (hallucinatory visions) of her dead baby hatching from a cocoon. The cocoon looks like the facehugger eggs from the original Alien movie poster. まぼろし; hallucination/vision/mirage.

4) [uberclimber] 29-12-2010(14): After the opera, The Phantasm hangs up his tuxedo on a clothes hanger and returns to his sleeping bag (cocoon) to sleep. (Didn't want to start sticking cloak in there by mistake). 幻 まぼろし phantom, vision, illusion, dream; 幻影 げんえい phantom, vision, illusion; 幻怪な げんかいな strange or mysterious and troubling.

5) [ivantolearnkanji] 19-4-2008(14): The cocooned phetuses from back-alley clothes-hanger abortions turn into phantasms.