The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition : Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore / Michael Dylan Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Michael Dylan.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Names, Dates, Places

Part I. Yōkai Culture

1. Introducing Yōkai

Yōkai, Folklore, and This Book

The Language of Yōkai

Event Becomes Object

Questioning Yōkai

2. Shape-Shifting History

Heroes of Myth and Legend

Weird Tales and Weird Tastes

Modern Disciplines

Postwar Animation and the Yōkai Boom

3. Yōkai Practice / Yōkai Theory

Yōkai Culture Network

Zones of Uncertainty

Part II. Yōkai Codex

4. The Order of Yōkai

5. Wilds

6. Water

7. Countryside

8. Village and City

9. Home

Part III. Yōkai Gallery

10. Seeing Yōkai

11. Illustrating Yōkai

12. A Completely Incomplete Yōkai Exhibition

Epilogue: Monsterful

Notes

Bibliography

Alphabetized List of Yōkai in the Codex

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520389564

0520389565

OCLC:

1450838490