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Title: The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition
Condition: New
Description: Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.
 
Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yōkai, they appear in many forms, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water sprites, to shape-shifting kitsune foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Popular today in anime, manga, film, and video games, many yōkai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. The Book of Yōkai invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them.

Revised and expanded, this second edition features fifty new illustrations, including an all-new yōkai gallery of stunning color images tracing the visual history of yōkai across centuries. In clear and accessible language, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the cultural and historical contexts of yōkai, interpreting their varied meanings and introducing people who have pursued them through the ages.
Author: Michael Dylan Foster
EAN: 9780520403888
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Shinonome Kijin (Illustrated by)
ISBN-10: 0520403886
ISBN: 9780520403888
Format: Paperback
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Illustrator: Shinonome Kijin
Genre: Society & Culture
Edition: Second Edition
Subtitle: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date: 22/10/2024
Language: English
Item Weight: 771g
Topic: Language & Reference, History
Item Width: 33mm
Release Year: 2024

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