Pandemonium and parade : Japanese monsters and the culture of yōkai / Michael Dylan Foster.

By:

Foster, Michael Dylan, 1965- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520942677
9780520253612
9780520253629

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

GR340 .P363 2009

Online resources:

Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password

Available additional physical forms:

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	GR340 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1298207789

Browsing G. Allen Fleece Library shelves, Shelving location: ONLINE, Collection: Non-fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	GR265 Voices from the underworld : Chinese hell deity worship in contemporary Singapore and Malaysia /	GR335 The Columbia anthology of Chinese folk and popular literatureedited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender.	GR340 The book of yokai : mysterious creatures of Japanese folklore /	GR340 Pandemonium and parade : Japanese monsters and the culture of yōkai /	GR350 African folktales /selected and edited by Paul Radin.	GR353.3 Moroccan folktales /Jilali El Koudia ; translated from the Arabic by Jilali Koudia and Roger Allen ; with critical analysis by Hasan M. El-Shamy.	GR357 Over the lip of the world : among the storytellers of Madagascar /	Next

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.

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.