Pandemonium and Parade Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai

Name: Pandemonium and Parade Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
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ISBN: 9780520253629

ISBN-10: 0520253620

ISBN-13: 9780520253629

Edition: 2010

Authors: Michael Dylan Foster

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Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known asyocirc;kaihave long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese cultural imagination and offering an abundance of valuable and, until now, understudied material. Michael Dylan Foster tracksyocirc;kaiover three centuries, from their appearance in seventeenth-century natural histories to their starring role in twentieth-century popular media. Focusing on the intertwining of belief and commodification, fear…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on Japanese Names and Terms



Introduction to theWeird



Natural History of theWeird: Encyclopedias, Spooky Stories, and the Bestiaries of Toriyama Sekien



Science of theWeird: Inoue EnryO, Kokkuri, and Human Electricity



Museum of theWeird: Modernity, Minzokugaku, and the Discovery of YOkai



Media of theWeird: Mizuki Shigeru and Kuchi-sake-onna



YOkai Culture: Past, Present, Future


Notes


Bibliography


Index