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Ghost stories. --- Ghost stories. --- Goblins --- Goblins. --- Korea.

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Pygmies; Dwarfs; Fairies

Pygmies --- Dwarfs in literature --- Goblins --- Philology --- Zoology --- Biography

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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 the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. In this delightful and accessible narrative, readers will explore the roles played by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and will also learn of their abundance and variety through detailed entries, some with original illustrations, on more than fifty individual creatures. The Book of Yokai provides a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence within global popular culture. It invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them. By exploring yokai as a concept, we can better understand broader processes of tradition, innovation, storytelling, and individual and communal creativity"--Provided by publisher

Yōkai (Japanese folklore) --- J1723.80 --- J5620 --- Japan: Religion in general -- demonology --- Japan: Literature -- folk tales, fairy tales, mukashibanashi, ghost stories --- Folklore --- Monsters --- Yōkai (Japanese folklore). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Ungeheuer. --- Dämon. --- Volksglaube. --- Yōkai. --- Mythologie japonaise. --- Folktro. --- Folklore & Mythology. --- Japan. --- Japon. --- ancient folktales. --- anime. --- anthropology. --- asian mythology. --- concept of yokai. --- cultural reference. --- film. --- historical context. --- japanese folklore. --- japanese history. --- kappa water spirit. --- kitsune. --- long tongued ceiling licker. --- manga. --- monster guide. --- mountain goblins. --- shape-shifting foxes. --- yokai.

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Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai have 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 tracks yôkai over 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 and pleasure, horror and humor, he illuminates different conceptions of the "natural" and the "ordinary" and sheds light on broader social and historical paradigms-and ultimately on the construction of Japan as a nation.

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