Pandemonium and parade : Japanese monsters and the culture of yōkai / Michael Dylan Foster.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 291 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780520942677
- 9780520253612
- 9780520253629
- GR340 .P363 2009
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction to the weird -- Natural history of the weird : encyclopedias, spooky stories, and the bestiaries of Toriyama Sekien -- Science of the weird : inoue enryō, kokkuri, and human electricity -- Museum of the weird : modernity, minzokugaku, and the discovery of yōkai -- Media of the weird : Mizuki Shigeru and kuchi-sake-onna -- Yōkai culture : past, present, future.
Monsters known as yōkai 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 imagination over three centuries.
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