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Michael Dylan Foster

The Book of Yokai

Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore

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A lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence on global popular culture through the concept of yokai. Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks th… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-520-95912-5
  • EAN: 9780520959125
  • Produktnummer: 21596434
  • Verlag: Kensington Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 13'347 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Michael Dylan Foster is Professor of Japanese, Department Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of California, Davis. He is the author of Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai (California) and numerous articles on Japanese folklore, literature, and media.Shinonome Kijin is an artist and scholar of yokai. He lives and works in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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